Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

[Yinghai Lu]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm trying to think of any reason why we couldn't simply have a symbol at the top of the initial stack?  Then a simple leaq would suffice; this is for the BSP after all.

Why do we need to call verify_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S aka the
vmlinux again ?

Is that already called in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S?

Or Tom is using 64bit bootloader that use vmlinux instead of bzImage?

Thanks

Yinghai