Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64/efi: efistub: cover entire static mem footprint in PE/COFF .text

2014-08-14 Thread Mark Rutland
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:59:03AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: The static memory footprint of a kernel Image at boot is larger than the Image file itself. Things like .bss data and initial page tables are allocated statically but populated dynamically so their content is not contained in the

[PATCH v2 2/3] arm64/efi: efistub: cover entire static mem footprint in PE/COFF .text

2014-07-30 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
The static memory footprint of a kernel Image at boot is larger than the Image file itself. Things like .bss data and initial page tables are allocated statically but populated dynamically so their content is not contained in the Image file. However, if EFI (or GRUB) has loaded the Image at