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Ard Biesheuvel 138728dd4e efi/arm-stub: Correct FDT and initrd allocation rules for arm64
On arm64, we have made some changes over the past year to the way the
kernel itself is allocated and to how it deals with the initrd and FDT.
This patch brings the allocation logic in the EFI stub in line with that,
which is necessary because the introduction of KASLR has created the
possibility for the initrd to be allocated in a place where the kernel
may not be able to map it. (This is mostly a theoretical scenario, since
it only affects systems where the physical memory footprint exceeds the
size of the linear mapping.)

Since we know the kernel itself will be covered by the linear mapping,
choose a suitably sized window (i.e., based on the size of the linear
region) covering the kernel when allocating memory for the initrd.

The FDT may be anywhere in memory on arm64 now that we map it via the
fixmap, so we can lift the address restriction there completely.

Tested-by: Richard Ruigrok <rruigrok@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404160245.27812-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-05 12:27:23 +02:00
Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-04-01 19:45:05 -07:00
arch efi/arm-stub: Correct FDT and initrd allocation rules for arm64 2017-04-05 12:27:23 +02:00
block blk-mq: include errors in did_work calculation 2017-03-24 15:42:47 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-03-31 12:11:32 -07:00
drivers efi/arm-stub: Correct FDT and initrd allocation rules for arm64 2017-04-05 12:27:23 +02:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-04-01 19:45:05 -07:00
include Merge branch 'vmwgfx-fixes-4.11' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2017-04-04 05:45:27 +10:00
init mm: move mm_percpu_wq initialization earlier 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
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mm mm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
net The restriction of NFSv4 to TCP went overboard and also broke the 2017-04-01 10:43:37 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts x86/build: Mostly disable '-maccumulate-outgoing-args' 2017-03-30 11:53:04 +02:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - fix a problem for lineout on a Dell AIO machine 2017-03-31 10:58:26 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-23 11:29:49 -07:00
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virt KVM: pci-assign: do not map smm memory slot pages in vt-d page tables 2017-03-28 10:08:54 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS A new EDAC driver for the Pondicherry2 memory controller IP found in the 2017-03-27 11:09:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc5 2017-04-02 17:23:54 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.