Chris Mason <[email protected]> writes:
> From: Michael Matz <[email protected]>
>
> While testing kexec and kdump we hit problems where the new kernel would
> freeze or instantly reboot. The easiest way to trigger it was to kexec a
> kernel compiled for CONFIG_M586 on an athlon cpu. Compiling
> for CONFIG_MK7 instead would work fine.
>
> The patch below fixes a few problems with the kexec inline asm.
Thanks. Specifying the stomp of %eax in load_segments is definitely
good. The memory stomp looks excessive and if this was a fast path
I would worry about it. As it is better safe than sorry.
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Eric
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