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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-03-12 09:58:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-03-12 09:58:57 -0700 |
| commit | b29f377119f68b942369a9366bdcb1fec82b2cda (patch) | |
| tree | 1d5bca16e70aa3c1a0660825d0d8fc3f09abc262 /Documentation | |
| parent | e66c58f743513119f703f3a47f0f93a8e82c0028 (diff) | |
| parent | 2e2bc42c8381d2c0e9604b59e49264821da29368 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b29f377119f68b942369a9366bdcb1fec82b2cda.tar.gz | |
Merge tag 'x86-boot-2024-03-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Continuing work by Ard Biesheuvel to improve the x86 early startup
code, with the long-term goal to make it position independent:
- Get rid of early accesses to global objects, either by moving
them to the stack, deferring the access until later, or dropping
the globals entirely
- Move all code that runs early via the 1:1 mapping into
.head.text, and move code that does not out of it, so that build
time checks can be added later to ensure that no inadvertent
absolute references were emitted into code that does not
tolerate them
- Remove fixup_pointer() and occurrences of __pa_symbol(), which
rely on the compiler emitting absolute references, which is not
guaranteed
- Improve the early console code
- Add early console message about ignored NMIs, so that users are at
least warned about their existence - even if we cannot do anything
about them
- Improve the kexec code's kernel load address handling
- Enable more X86S (simplified x86) bits
- Simplify early boot GDT handling
- Micro-optimize the boot code a bit
- Misc cleanups
* tag 'x86-boot-2024-03-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
x86/sev: Move early startup code into .head.text section
x86/sme: Move early SME kernel encryption handling into .head.text
x86/boot: Move mem_encrypt= parsing to the decompressor
efi/libstub: Add generic support for parsing mem_encrypt=
x86/startup_64: Simplify virtual switch on primary boot
x86/startup_64: Simplify calculation of initial page table address
x86/startup_64: Defer assignment of 5-level paging global variables
x86/startup_64: Simplify CR4 handling in startup code
x86/boot: Use 32-bit XOR to clear registers
efi/x86: Set the PE/COFF header's NX compat flag unconditionally
x86/boot/64: Load the final kernel GDT during early boot directly, remove startup_gdt[]
x86/boot/64: Use RIP_REL_REF() to access early_top_pgt[]
x86/boot/64: Use RIP_REL_REF() to access early page tables
x86/boot/64: Use RIP_REL_REF() to access '__supported_pte_mask'
x86/boot/64: Use RIP_REL_REF() to access early_dynamic_pgts[]
x86/boot/64: Use RIP_REL_REF() to assign 'phys_base'
x86/boot/64: Simplify global variable accesses in GDT/IDT programming
x86/trampoline: Bypass compat mode in trampoline_start64() if not needed
kexec: Allocate kernel above bzImage's pref_address
x86/boot: Add a message about ignored early NMIs
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst index c513855a54bb99..4fd492cb49704f 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst @@ -878,7 +878,8 @@ Protocol: 2.10+ address if possible. A non-relocatable kernel will unconditionally move itself and to run - at this address. + at this address. A relocatable kernel will move itself to this address if it + loaded below this address. ============ ======= Field name: init_size |