Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking

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To: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...>

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking

Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 1:18 am

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:40 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
[...]
quoted text> 4) Put the code is a special section .text.kexec? and have the linker
>    always do the size comparison and the computation of the section size.
> 
> The fewer conditionals we have the less likely something is to break.

Yes. This one is good. But I think current one is acceptable too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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[PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Huang Ying, (Tue Aug 12, 9:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Vivek Goyal, (Wed Aug 13, 9:19 am)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Andrew Morton, (Wed Aug 13, 1:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Simon Horman, (Tue Aug 12, 10:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Huang Ying, (Tue Aug 12, 11:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Vivek Goyal, (Wed Aug 13, 9:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Simon Horman, (Tue Aug 12, 11:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Aug 12, 11:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Huang Ying, (Wed Aug 13, 1:18 am)

Re: [PATCH] kexec jump: fix code size checking, Simon Horman, (Wed Aug 13, 1:51 am)


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