[PATCH] x86: remove data-header and code overlap in boot/setup.S
The setup.S data and code is not cleanly separated. The current space reserved for setup header is not enough to fit the complete header. As a result, part of the header (EDDBUF) will overwrite the initial code. I haven't seen any negative impact of this bug. As, by the time the setup code is overwritten, we would have finished executing it anyway. But, I think it is better to separate the header and code and prevent this data_overwriting_the_code condition. The atatched patch adds some space in the header to fit all the data listed in Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt for both i386 and x86_64 (and updates zero-page.txt). Signed-off-by: : "Venkatesh Pallipadi" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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