Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/boot: Annotate the multiboot headers with size and type information

2018-03-05 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.03.18 at 19:58, wrote: > This causes objdump not to try and disassemble the data. > > While altering this area, switch to using .balign, and fill with 0xc2 to help > highlight the embedded padding (rather than having it filled with 0f 1f 40 00 > which is a long nop). Also, shorten the

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/boot: Annotate the multiboot headers with size and type information

2018-03-02 Thread Andrew Cooper
This causes objdump not to try and disassemble the data. While altering this area, switch to using .balign, and fill with 0xc2 to help highlight the embedded padding (rather than having it filled with 0f 1f 40 00 which is a long nop). Also, shorten the labels by stripping off the _start suffix.