Re: [PATCH v7u1 05/31] x86, 64bit: copy zero-page early

2013-01-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:48:25PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > real_mode_data aka zero-page could be above 4g. I think this could be more informative if it said 'struct boot_params' instead of real_mode_data because real_mode_data is the argument name passed to the respective function and grepping

[PATCH v7u1 05/31] x86, 64bit: copy zero-page early

2013-01-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
real_mode_data aka zero-page could be above 4g. We will have #PF handler to set page table for not accessible ram early, but could limit it before x86_64_start_reservations to limit the change to native path. Also we will need to ramdisk info in zero-page to access microcode blob in ramdisk in x86