Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86, boot: Don't overlap VO with ZO data

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 10 2015 - 11:23:07 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:17:01AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Make it not confusing.
>
> ZO: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> VO: vmlinux
>
> setup + ZO ==> bzImage.
>
> compressed kernel is just compressed VO.

So the two end up being the "compressed kernel" and "kernel proper".

And then the subject turns into

"Don't overlap kernel proper's brk with the compressed kernel's data section"

Does that still confuse you?

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Boris.

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