Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] x86/boot: save fields explicitly, zero out everything else | From | John Hubbard <> | Date | Mon, 5 Aug 2019 13:28:06 -0700 |
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On 7/30/19 10:46 PM, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote: > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> > > Hi, > > This uses the "save each field explicitly" approach that we discussed > during the first review [1]. As in [1], this is motivated by a desire > to clear the compiler warnings when building with gcc 9. > > This is difficult to properly test. I've done a basic boot test, but > if there are actually errors in which items get zeroed or not, I don't > have a good test to uncover that.
Also, if anyone has advice about any extra testing I could run on this, please send it my way.
thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907260036500.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de > > John Hubbard (1): > x86/boot: save fields explicitly, zero out everything else > > arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 62 +++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >
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