Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix boot failure when SMP MP-table is based at 0

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:00:31PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Btw, it was working before because instead of saving off the physical
> address as 5997efb96756 now does, it saved off a virtual address that
> pointed to physical address 0 (0xffff880000000000) and used that in the
> conditional.

Dunno, should we support any braindead vm implementation which puts
stuff in the low megabyte?

I mean, the fix is simple enough and we probably don't care all that
much whatever potent sh*t people are smoking as long as it is all the
same to the kernel...

IMO.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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