On Út 07-03-06 21:16:34, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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.
Why excessive? It reloads %ss, AFAICS; at that point, all the stack
potentially changes from gcc's POV.
Pavel
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