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| From | Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual address to C |
| Date | 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <til0t-6mK-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <theDL-7cX-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <theDL-7cX-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <tijrI-5mG-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The updated comments and other details are fine, but I'm not sure about the __va()
> change: the patch essentially open codes __va() in assembly - which would make any
> changes to __va() [for whatever reason] more difficult, right?
>
> Right now we don't seem to have a single such line of assembly, so changes to
> __va() can be done in C alone.
Ok, that's a fair point.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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[PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-04 11:00 +0100
[PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual address to C Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-04 11:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual address to C Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 10:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual address to C Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 10:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 16:00 +0100
[tip:x86/boot] x86/boot/64: Rename start_cpu() tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-03-07 14:10 +0100
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