Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750724AbWHIMrT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:47:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbWHIMrS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:47:18 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:51933 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbWHIMrS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:47:18 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages To: "Eric W. Biederman" , Don Zickus , fastboot@osdl.org, Horms , Jan Kratochvil , "H. Peter Anvin" , Magnus Damm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:40:31 +0200 References: <6EIOG-2xY-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <6EIOG-2xY-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <6EIOG-2xY-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <6EIOG-2xY-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <6EIOG-2xY-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <6EIOG-2xY-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Gf5M-2zt-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Gfpt-30C-49@gated-at.bofh.it> <6GhAA-6bP-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <6Gx2C-436-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <6HhoT-5E7-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <6HhRQ-6uk-3@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 14 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Odd. I wonder if I'm missing a serializing instruction somewhere, > to ensure the effects of ``self modifying code'' aren't a problem. > As I read Intels Documentation if you have a jump before you get > to the code there shouldn't be a problem. ACK, a short jump to the next instruction *should* be all it takes, but if it doesn't, maybe a long jump will do the trick. -- Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html - 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/