Re: [PATCH]x86_64: build and use GDT on copied compressed kernel

[Yinghai Lu]

On 5/12/07, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:33:14 Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Can you please give a little more description on why you think the patch
> is needed? Also we need a Signed-off-by line.

in the arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S.
it switch to 64 bit mode and then copy compressed image to higher
address. and jump the copied image, then decompressed the compressed
image to final uncompressed kernel and it may overlapped with original
loaded compressed kernel image.

before jump to 64 bit mode, it will create new page table in some
place higher in copied compressed kernel image. but still use the GDT
in place of original loaded compressed image.  So the GDT will be
overwriten in the middle of decompressing.

So we could change to build the GDT like page table together with
copied compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/13/8
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