From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932222AbbCJPXE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:23:04 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49697 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932184AbbCJPXB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:23:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:21:37 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Matt Fleming , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Baoquan He , Thomas Gleixner , Jiri Kosina , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86, boot: Don't overlap VO with ZO data Message-ID: <20150310152137.GI3535@pd.tnic> References: <1425766041-6551-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1425766041-6551-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20150310093430.GC3535@pd.tnic> <20150310151035.GG3535@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:17:01AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Make it not confusing. > > ZO: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux > VO: vmlinux > > setup + ZO ==> bzImage. > > compressed kernel is just compressed VO. So the two end up being the "compressed kernel" and "kernel proper". And then the subject turns into "Don't overlap kernel proper's brk with the compressed kernel's data section" Does that still confuse you? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --