Re: [PATCH 5/9] apm32: remove paravirt_enabled() use

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 10:09:53 EST




On 02/19/2016 08:08 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
There is already a check for apm_info.bios == 0, the
apm_info.bios is set from the boot_params.apm_bios_info.
Both Xen and lguest, which are also the only ones that set
paravirt_enabled to true) do never set the apm_bios_info,
the paravirt_enabled() check is simply not needed.

We need to guarantee that boot_params is filled with zeroes. On baremetal path we clear .bss (which is where boot_params live) before copying data from zero page.

So we need to at least memset(&boot_params, 0, sz) in xen_start_kernel(). Better yet, clear whole .bss.

(This applies to the next patch as well).

-boris