Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753013AbbBSRgX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:36:23 -0500 Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.1.3]:54704 "EHLO smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751934AbbBSRgW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: <54E61F10.9010808@cantab.net> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:36:16 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Gross , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com References: <1424242326-26611-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <1424242326-26611-10-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> In-Reply-To: <1424242326-26611-10-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.70.146.43 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dvrabel@cantab.net Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 09/13] xen: check for kernel memory conflicting with memory layout X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on pear.davidvrabel.org.uk) X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.70.146.41] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 13 On 18/02/2015 06:52, Juergen Gross wrote: > Checks whether the pre-allocated memory of the loaded kernel is in > conflict with the target memory map. If this is the case, just panic > instead of run into problems later. What ensures this doesn't actually happen? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/