Re: brk patches..

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> wonder if boot loader check uncompress size aka vmlinux size in bzImage
>>> before it find one good position for bzImage...?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Jeremy's brk patches may break:
>> 1. kexec load 64bit vmlinux on some ram that near the memory hole etc.
>> blindly to use ram after _end may have some problem
>> 2. coreboot aka linux is using elf (by mkelfImage : vmlinux + initrd),
>> initrd became one section after _end...
>> could cause initrd get overwrite... by extend _brk
>>
>
> But its no different from what i386 does now to allocate its initial
> pagetables.  How does this not break now?
>

it will try to use initial page table af first, and it is not big
enough, it will according to e820 and other reserved_early areas to
find good positions.

YH
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