On 12/13/2012 04:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
On 12/13/2012 02:02 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
+ * If we come here from a bootloader, kernel(text+data+bss+brk),
+ * ramdisk, zero_page, command line could be above 4G.
+ * We depend on an identity mapped page table being provided
+ * that maps our entire kernel(text+data+bss+brk), and hopefully
+ * all of memory.
We should make it explicit what we depend on. We certainly *can* depend
only on text+data+bss+brk ... with the dynamic page table approach we
can do that, and that would be most conservative; if we depend on other
things we should make that explicit, not just here but in boot.txt.
yes, in my version, only need kernel(text+data+bss+brk) get mapped.
aka the INIT_SIZE for decompressing.
It is definitely the minmum we can rely on, and so is the minimum we
should rely on. In fact, we don't even need .bss/.brk to be mapped, but
we probably should require that as a matter of protocol.
-hpa
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