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i386: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI

Some people writing boot loaders seem to falsely belief the 32bit zero page is a
stable interface for out of tree code like the real mode boot protocol. Add a comment
clarifying that is not true.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen 17 年之前
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      Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt

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Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt

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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!
+The zero page is a kernel internal data structure, not a stable ABI.  It might change
+without warning and the kernel has no way to detect old version of it.
+If you're writing some external code like a boot loader you should only use
+the stable versioned real mode boot protocol described in boot.txt. Otherwise the kernel
+might break you at any time.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Summary of boot_params layout (kernel point of view)
 Summary of boot_params layout (kernel point of view)
      ( collected by Hans Lermen and Martin Mares )
      ( collected by Hans Lermen and Martin Mares )