From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use 32-bit (zero-extended) move for z_output_len
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:47:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200212094721.GB30793@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200211192739.GA1761914@rani.riverdale.lan>
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:27:39PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Yes, this is just a "neatening" patch to use a more appropriate
> instruction. There would have to be a lot of work to allow kernels to be
> bigger than 2Gb,
And yet we're bloating up, right into that limit... ;-\
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-12 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 19:44 [PATCH 1/3] x86/boot/compressed/32: Simplify calculation of output address Arvind Sankar
2020-01-07 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/boot/compressed/64: Use leal to initialize boot stack pointer Arvind Sankar
2020-02-12 12:04 ` [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot/compressed/64: Use LEA " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-01-07 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/boot/compressed/64: Use 32-bit move for z_output_len Arvind Sankar
2020-02-11 16:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-11 17:33 ` [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use 32-bit (zero-extended) " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-11 18:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-11 19:27 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-12 9:47 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-02-12 12:04 ` [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot/compressed/64: Use 32-bit (zero-extended) MOV " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-01-23 11:04 ` [tip: x86/asm] x86/boot: Simplify calculation of output address tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
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