From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/27] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S and no_longmode after 0x200
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:24:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121222022456.GE3468@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQXOV-GZk6HR17KcDsiPM89=eNHdYRSP2A6n5R_AKnhaLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:44:55PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > So this explains what you're doing but I'd like to know why?
> >
> > Why do you need to free some more room between startup_32 and
> > startup_64? Do you need this room in another patch, maybe the next one:
> >
> > "[PATCH v7 14/27] x86, boot: Move lldt/ltr out of 64bit code section"
> >
> > Is that so? If yes, please write that in the commit message so that we
> > know why you're doing that change.
>
> duplicate next patch commit log here. no, that's too long.
Why is that a problem? Long patch commit logs are OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-22 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 22:01 [PATCH v6 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:01 ` [PATCH v6 01/27] x86, mm: Fix page table early allocation offset checking Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 10:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 3:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 17:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 22:01 ` [PATCH v6 02/27] x86, mm: make pgd next calculation consistent with pud/pmd Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 14:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 3:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 20:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 21:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:01 ` [PATCH v6 03/27] x86, boot: move verify_cpu.S and no_longmode after 0x200 Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 17:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 3:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 20:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 21:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 22:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-22 2:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2012-12-13 22:01 ` [PATCH v6 04/27] x86, boot: Move lldt/ltr out of 64bit code section Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 17:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 3:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:01 ` [PATCH v6 05/27] x86, 64bit: clear ident mapping when kernel is above 512G Yinghai Lu
2012-12-16 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-16 18:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 3:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 06/27] x86, 64bit: Set extra ident mapping for whole kernel range Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 07/27] x86: Merge early_reserve_initrd for 32bit and 64bit Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 08/27] x86: add get_ramdisk_image/size() Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 09/27] x86, boot: add get_cmd_line_ptr() Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 10/27] x86, boot: move checking of cmd_line_ptr out of common path Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 11/27] x86, boot: update cmd_line_ptr to unsigned long Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 12/27] x86: use io_remap to access real_mode_data Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 13/27] x86: use rsi/rdi to pass realmode_data pointer Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 14/27] x86, kexec: remove 1024G limitation for kexec buffer on 64bit Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 15/27] x86, kexec: set ident mapping for kernel that is above max_pfn Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 16/27] x86, kexec: Merge ident_mapping_init and init_level4_page Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 17/27] x86, kexec: only set ident mapping for ram Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 18/27] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 23:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 23:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 0:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 0:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 0:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 0:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 1:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 2:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 20/27] x86, 64bit: Print init kernel lowmap correctly Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 21/27] x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 22/27] mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 23/27] x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb Yinghai Lu
2012-12-22 2:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 24/27] x86: Add swiotlb force off support Yinghai Lu
2012-12-22 2:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-12-22 5:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-23 5:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 25/27] x86, kdump: remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 26/27] x86: add Crash kernel low reservation Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 22:02 ` [PATCH v6 27/27] x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 23:47 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 0:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 22:38 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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