Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:32:54PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm trying to think of any reason why we couldn't simply have a symbol
> at the top of the initial stack? Then a simple leaq would suffice;
> this is for the BSP after all.

That should be simpler. And we do games like that already in the trampoline:

        # Setup stack
        movl    $rm_stack_end, %esp

...

GLOBAL(rm_stack)
        .space  2048
GLOBAL(rm_stack_end)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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