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16-Jan-2024 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi/x86: Set the PE/COFF header's NX compat flag unconditionally Now that the proper section and file alignment is used, and the EFI memory attributes protocol to manage executable permissions where needed is invoked, set the NX compat flag unconditionally. [ bp: Remove the "we"s. ] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240116085347.2193966-2-ardb+git@google.com
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05-Feb-2024 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/efistub: Use 1:1 file:memory mapping for PE/COFF .compat section The .compat section is a dummy PE section that contains the address of the 32-bit entrypoint of the 64-bit kernel image if it is bootable from 32-bit firmware (i.e., CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y) This section is only 8 bytes in size and is only referenced from the loader, and so it is placed at the end of the memory view of the image, to avoid the need for padding it to 4k, which is required for sections appearing in the middle of the image. Unfortunately, this violates the PE/COFF spec, and even if most EFI loaders will work correctly (including the Tianocore reference implementation), PE loaders do exist that reject such images, on the basis that both the file and memory views of the file contents should be described by the section headers in a monotonically increasing manner without leaving any gaps. So reorganize the sections to avoid this issue. This results in a slight padding overhead (< 4k) which can be avoided if desired by disabling CONFIG_EFI_MIXED (which is only needed in rare cases these days) Fixes: 3e3eabe26dc8 ("x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512") Reported-by: Mike Beaton <mjsbeaton@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHzAAWQ6srV6LVNdmfbJhOwhBw5ZzxxZZ07aHt9oKkfYAdvuQQ%40mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512 Align x86 with other EFI architectures, and increase the section alignment to the EFI page size (4k), so that firmware is able to honour the section permission attributes and map code read-only and data non-executable. There are a number of requirements that have to be taken into account: - the sign tools get cranky when there are gaps between sections in the file view of the image - the virtual offset of each section must be aligned to the image's section alignment - the file offset *and size* of each section must be aligned to the image's file alignment - the image size must be aligned to the section alignment - each section's virtual offset must be greater than or equal to the size of the headers. In order to meet all these requirements, while avoiding the need for lots of padding to accommodate the .compat section, the latter is placed at an arbitrary offset towards the end of the image, but aligned to the minimum file alignment (512 bytes). The space before the .text section is therefore distributed between the PE header, the .setup section and the .compat section, leaving no gaps in the file coverage, making the signing tools happy. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-18-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Split off PE/COFF .data section Describe the code and data of the decompressor binary using separate .text and .data PE/COFF sections, so that we will be able to map them using restricted permissions once we increase the section and file alignment sufficiently. This avoids the need for memory mappings that are writable and executable at the same time, which is something that is best avoided for security reasons. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-17-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section Ancient buggy EFI loaders may have required a .reloc section to be present at some point in time, but this has not been true for a long time so the .reloc section can just be dropped. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-16-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Construct PE/COFF .text section from assembler Now that the size of the setup block is visible to the assembler, it is possible to populate the PE/COFF header fields from the asm code directly, instead of poking the values into the binary using the build tool. This will make it easier to reorganize the section layout without having to tweak the build tool in lockstep. This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-15-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Derive file size from _edata symbol Tweak the linker script so that the value of _edata represents the decompressor binary's file size rounded up to the appropriate alignment. This removes the need to calculate it in the build tool, and will make it easier to refer to the file size from the header directly in subsequent changes to the PE header layout. While adding _edata to the sed regex that parses the compressed vmlinux's symbol list, tweak the regex a bit for conciseness. This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary when configured with CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-14-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script The setup block contains the real mode startup code that is used when booting from a legacy BIOS, along with the boot_params/setup_data that is used by legacy x86 bootloaders to pass the command line and initial ramdisk parameters, among other things. The setup block also contains the PE/COFF header of the entire combined image, which includes the compressed kernel image, the decompressor and the EFI stub. This PE header describes the layout of the executable image in memory, and currently, the fact that the setup block precedes it makes it rather fiddly to get the right values into the right place in the final image. Let's make things a bit easier by defining the setup_size in the linker script so it can be referenced from the asm code directly, rather than having to rely on the build tool to calculate it. For the time being, add 64 bytes of fixed padding for the .reloc and .compat sections - this will be removed in a subsequent patch after the PE/COFF header has been reorganized. This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary when configured with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-13-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Set EFI handover offset directly in header asm The offsets of the EFI handover entrypoints are available to the assembler when constructing the header, so there is no need to set them from the build tool afterwards. This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-12-ardb@google.com
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15-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Grab kernel_info offset from zoffset header directly Instead of parsing zoffset.h and poking the kernel_info offset value into the header from the build tool, just grab the value directly in the asm file that describes this header. This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-11-ardb@google.com
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12-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device The root device defaults to 0,0 and is no longer configurable at build time [0], so there is no need for the build tool to ever write to this field. [0] 079f85e624189292 ("x86, build: Do not set the root_dev field in bzImage") This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-23-ardb@google.com
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12-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint Now that the EFI stub decompresses the kernel and hands over to the decompressed image directly, there is no longer a need to provide a decompression buffer as part of the .BSS allocation of the PE/COFF image. It also means the PE/COFF image can be loaded anywhere in memory, and setting the preferred image base is unnecessary. So drop the handling of this from the header and from the build tool. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-22-ardb@google.com
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12-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Remove the 'bugger off' message Ancient (pre-2003) x86 kernels could boot from a floppy disk straight from the BIOS, using a small real mode boot stub at the start of the image where the BIOS would expect the boot record (or boot block) to appear. Due to its limitations (kernel size < 1 MiB, no support for IDE, USB or El Torito floppy emulation), this support was dropped, and a Linux aware bootloader is now always required to boot the kernel from a legacy BIOS. To smoothen this transition, the boot stub was not removed entirely, but replaced with one that just prints an error message telling the user to install a bootloader. As it is unlikely that anyone doing direct floppy boot with such an ancient kernel is going to upgrade to v6.5+ and expect that this boot method still works, printing this message is kind of pointless, and so it should be possible to remove the logic that emits it. Let's free up this space so it can be used to expand the PE header in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-21-ardb@google.com
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12-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/efi: Drop alignment flags from PE section headers The section header flags for alignment are documented in the PE/COFF spec as being applicable to PE object files only, not to PE executables such as the Linux bzImage, so let's drop them from the PE header. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-20-ardb@google.com
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14-Mar-2023 |
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/ Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more closely match the structure of the source directories it describes. All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated. Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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09-Nov-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header GRUB currently relies on the magic number in the image header of ARM and arm64 EFI kernel images to decide whether or not the image in question is a bootable kernel. However, the purpose of the magic number is to identify the image as one that implements the bare metal boot protocol, and so GRUB, which only does EFI boot, is limited unnecessarily to booting images that could potentially be booted in a non-EFI manner as well. This is problematic for the new zboot decompressor image format, as it can only boot in EFI mode, and must therefore not use the bare metal boot magic number in its header. For this reason, the strict magic number was dropped from GRUB, to permit essentially any kind of EFI executable to be booted via the 'linux' command, blurring the line between the linux loader and the chainloader. So let's use the same field in the DOS header that RISC-V and arm64 already use for their 'bare metal' magic numbers to store a 'generic Linux kernel' magic number, which can be used to identify bootable kernel images in PE format which don't necessarily implement a bare metal boot protocol in the same binary. Note that, in the context of EFI, the MS-DOS header is only described in terms of the fields that it shares with the hybrid PE/COFF image format, (i.e., the MS-DOS EXE magic number at offset #0 and the PE header offset at byte offset #0x3c). Since we aim for compatibility with EFI only, and not with MS-DOS or MS-Windows, we can use the remaining space in the MS-DOS header however we want. Let's set the generic magic number for x86 images as well: existing bootloaders already have their own methods to identify x86 Linux images that can be booted in a non-EFI manner, and having the magic number in place there will ease any future transitions in loader implementations to merge the x86 and non-x86 EFI boot paths. Note that 32-bit ARM already uses the same location in the header for a different purpose, but the ARM support is already widely implemented and the EFI zboot decompressor is not available on ARM anyway, so we just disregard it here. Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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22-Nov-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional The EFI handover protocol permits a bootloader to invoke the kernel as a EFI PE/COFF application, while passing a bootparams struct as a third argument to the entrypoint function call. This has no basis in the UEFI specification, and there are better ways to pass additional data to a UEFI application (UEFI configuration tables, UEFI variables, UEFI protocols) than going around the StartImage() boot service and jumping to a fixed offset in the loaded image, just to call a different function that takes a third parameter. The reason for handling struct bootparams in the bootloader was that the EFI stub could only load initrd images from the EFI system partition, and so passing it via struct bootparams was needed for loaders like GRUB, which pass the initrd in memory, and may load it from anywhere, including from the network. Another motivation was EFI mixed mode, which could not use the initrd loader in the EFI stub at all due to 32/64 bit incompatibilities (which will be fixed shortly [0]), and could not invoke the ordinary PE/COFF entry point either, for the same reasons. Given that loaders such as GRUB already carried the bootparams handling in order to implement non-EFI boot, retaining that code and just passing bootparams to the EFI stub was a reasonable choice (although defining an alternate entrypoint could have been avoided.) However, the GRUB side changes never made it upstream, and are only shipped by some of the distros in their downstream versions. In the meantime, EFI support has been added to other Linux architecture ports, as well as to U-boot and systemd, including arch-agnostic methods for passing initrd images in memory [1], and for doing mixed mode boot [2], none of them requiring anything like the EFI handover protocol. So given that only out-of-tree distro GRUB relies on this, let's permit it to be omitted from the build, in preparation for retiring it completely at a later date. (Note that systemd-boot does have an implementation as well, but only uses it as a fallback for booting images that do not implement the LoadFile2 based initrd loading method, i.e., v5.8 or older) [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927085842.2860715-1-ardb@kernel.org/ [1] ec93fc371f01 ("efi/libstub: Add support for loading the initrd from a device path") [2] 97aa276579b2 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122161017.2426828-18-ardb@kernel.org
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01-Jun-2022 |
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> |
efi: x86: Fix config name for setting the NX-compatibility flag in the PE header Commit 21b68da7bf4a ("efi: x86: Set the NX-compatibility flag in the PE header") intends to set the compatibility flag, i.e., IMAGE_DLL_CHARACTERISTICS_NX_COMPAT, but this ifdef is actually dead as the CONFIG_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES Kconfig option does not exist. The config is actually called EFI_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES. Adjust the ifdef to use the intended config name. The issue was identified with ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py. Fixes: 21b68da7bf4a ("efi: x86: Set the NX-compatibility flag in the PE header") Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220601115043.7678-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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29-Mar-2022 |
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> |
efi: x86: Set the NX-compatibility flag in the PE header Following Baskov Evgeniy's "Handle UEFI NX-restricted page tables" patches, it's safe to set this compatibility flag to let loaders know they don't need to make special accommodations for kernel to load if pre-boot NX is enabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220329184743.798513-1-pjones@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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30-Jul-2020 |
Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> |
x86: Bump ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd Bump the ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd. Zstd needs 3 bytes per 128 KB, and has a 22 byte fixed overhead. Zstd needs to maintain 128 KB of space at all times, since that is the maximum block size. See the comments regarding in-place decompression added in lib/decompress_unzstd.c for details. The existing code is written so that all the compression algorithms use the same ZO_z_extra_bytes. It is taken to be the maximum of the growth rate plus the maximum fixed overhead. The comments just above this diff state that: Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-6-nickrterrell@gmail.com
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08-Mar-2020 |
Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> |
efi/x86: Add kernel preferred address to PE header Store the kernel's link address as ImageBase in the PE header. Note that the PE specification requires the ImageBase to be 64k aligned. The preferred address should almost always satisfy that, except for 32-bit kernel if the configuration has been customized. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-4-nivedita@alum.mit.edu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-18-ardb@kernel.org
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20-Feb-2020 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi/libstub: Introduce symbolic constants for the stub major/minor version Now that we have added new ways to load the initrd or the mixed mode kernel, we will also need a way to tell the loader about this. Add symbolic constants for the PE/COFF major/minor version numbers (which fortunately have always been 0x0 for all architectures), so that we can bump them later to document the capabilities of the stub. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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20-Feb-2020 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi/x86: Use symbolic constants in PE header instead of bare numbers Replace bare numbers in the PE/COFF header structure with symbolic constants so they become self documenting. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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11-Feb-2020 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section Currently, mixed mode is closely tied to the EFI handover protocol and relies on intimate knowledge of the bootparams structure, setup header etc, all of which are rather byzantine and entirely specific to x86. Even though no other EFI supported architectures are currently known that could support something like mixed mode, it still makes sense to abstract a bit from this, and make it part of a generic Linux on EFI boot protocol. To that end, add a .compat section to the mixed mode binary, and populate it with the PE machine type and entry point address, allowing firmware implementations to match it to their native machine type, and invoke non-native binaries using a secondary entry point. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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12-Feb-2020 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
efi/x86: Drop redundant .bss section In commit c7fb93ec51d462ec ("x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers") we added a separate .bss section to the PE/COFF header of the compressed kernel describing the static memory footprint of the decompressor, to ensure that it has enough headroom to decompress itself. We can achieve the exact same result by increasing the virtual size of the .text section, without changing the raw size, which, as per the PE/COFF specification, requires the loader to zero initialize the delta. Doing so frees up a slot in the section table, which we will use later to describe the mixed mode entrypoint. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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12-Nov-2019 |
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> |
x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect The setup_data is a bit awkward to use for extremely large data objects, both because the setup_data header has to be adjacent to the data object and because it has a 32-bit length field. However, it is important that intermediate stages of the boot process have a way to identify which chunks of memory are occupied by kernel data. Thus introduce an uniform way to specify such indirect data as setup_indirect struct and SETUP_INDIRECT type. And finally bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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12-Nov-2019 |
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> |
x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info The relationships between the headers are analogous to the various data sections: setup_header = .data boot_params/setup_data = .bss What is missing from the above list? That's right: kernel_info = .rodata We have been (ab)using .data for things that could go into .rodata or .bss for a long time, for lack of alternatives and -- especially early on -- inertia. Also, the BIOS stub is responsible for creating boot_params, so it isn't available to a BIOS-based loader (setup_data is, though). setup_header is permanently limited to 144 bytes due to the reach of the 2-byte jump field, which doubles as a length field for the structure, combined with the size of the "hole" in struct boot_params that a protected-mode loader or the BIOS stub has to copy it into. It is currently 119 bytes long, which leaves us with 25 very precious bytes. This isn't something that can be fixed without revising the boot protocol entirely, breaking backwards compatibility. boot_params proper is limited to 4096 bytes, but can be arbitrarily extended by adding setup_data entries. It cannot be used to communicate properties of the kernel image, because it is .bss and has no image-provided content. kernel_info solves this by providing an extensible place for information about the kernel image. It is readonly, because the kernel cannot rely on a bootloader copying its contents anywhere, but that is OK; if it becomes necessary it can still contain data items that an enabled bootloader would be expected to copy into a setup_data chunk. Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot protocol. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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24-May-2019 |
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> |
x86/boot: Add xloadflags bits to check for 5-level paging support The current kernel supports 5-level paging mode, and supports dynamically choosing the paging mode during bootup depending on the kernel image, hardware and kernel parameter settings. This flexibility brings several issues to kexec/kdump: 1) Dynamic switching between paging modes requires support in the target kernel. This means kexec from a 5-level paging kernel into a kernel which does not support mode switching is not possible. So the loader needs to be able to analyze the supported paging modes of the kexec target kernel. 2) If running on a 5-level paging kernel and the kexec target kernel is a 4-level paging kernel, the target immage cannot be loaded above the 64TB address space limit. But the kexec loader searches for a load area from top to bottom which would eventually put the target kernel above 64TB when the machine has large enough RAM size. So the loader needs to be able to analyze the paging mode of the target kernel to load it at a suitable spot in the address space. Solution: Add two bits XLF_5LEVEL and XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED: - Bit XLF_5LEVEL indicates whether 5-level paging mode switching support is available. (Issue #1) - Bit XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED indicates whether the kernel was compiled with full 5-level paging support (CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y). (Issue #2) The loader will use these bits to verify whether the target kernel is suitable to be kexec'ed to from a 5-level paging kernel and to determine the constraints of the target kernel load address. The flags will be used by the kernel kexec subsystem and the userspace kexec tools. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: dyoung@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-2-bhe@redhat.com
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07-Jun-2019 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> |
docs: fix broken documentation links Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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20-Nov-2018 |
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> |
x86/boot: Mostly revert commit ae7e1238e68f2a ("Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header") Peter Anvin pointed out that commit: ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header") should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the legacy BIOS. So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit of: e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available") just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by a boot_params in a followup patch. Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Oct-2018 |
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> |
x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86 boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the kernel. For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or EBDA). While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version 2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13. There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header. This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with garbage by such a broken Grub2. From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting (but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel) ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Nov-2017 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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20-Sep-2017 |
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> |
x86/boot: Remove unnecessary #include <generated/utsrelease.h> The <generated/utsrelease.h> defines UTS_RELEASE, but I do not see any reference to it in arch/x86/boot/header.S. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505921232-8960-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Aug-2017 |
Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de> |
x86/boot: Provide more slack space during decompression The current slack space is not enough for LZ4, which has a worst case overhead of 0.4% for data that cannot be further compressed. With an LZ4 compressed kernel with an embedded initrd, the output is likely to overwrite the input. Increase the slack space to avoid that. Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503842124-29718-1-git-send-email-jschoenh@amazon.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-Jan-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
x86/boot/e820: Remove assembly guard from asm/e820/types.h There's an assembly guard in asm/e820/types.h, and only a single .S file includes this header: arch/x86/boot/header.S, but it does not actually make use of any of the E820 defines. Remove the inclusion and remove the assembly guard as well. No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
x86/boot/e820: Move asm/e820.h to asm/e820/api.h In line with asm/e820/types.h, move the e820 API declarations to asm/e820/api.h and update all usage sites. This is just a mechanical, obviously correct move & replace patch, there will be subsequent changes to clean up the code and to make better use of the new header organization. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2016 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
x86/boot: Calculate decompression size during boot not build Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c. This doesn't work well because mkpiggy.c doesn't know the details of the decompressor in use. As a result, it can only make an estimation, which has risks: - output + output_len (VO) could be much bigger than input + input_len (ZO). In this case, the decompressed kernel plus relocs could overwrite the decompression code while it is running. - The head code of ZO could be bigger than z_extract_offset. In this case an overwrite could happen when the head code is running to move ZO to the end of buffer. Though currently the size of the head code is very small it's still a potential risk. Since there is no rule to limit the size of the head code of ZO, it runs the risk of suddenly becoming a (hard to find) bug. Instead, this moves the z_extract_offset calculation into header.S, and makes adjustments to be sure that the above two cases can never happen, and further corrects the comments describing the calculations. Since we have (in the previous patch) made ZO always be located against the end of decompression buffer, z_extract_offset is only used here to calculate an appropriate buffer size (INIT_SIZE), and is not longer used elsewhere. As such, it can be removed from voffset.h. Additionally clean up #if/#else #define to improve readability. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> [ Rewrote the changelog and comments. ] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2016 |
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> |
x86/KASLR: Update description for decompressor worst case size The comment that describes the analysis for the size of the decompressor code only took gzip into account (there are currently 6 other decompressors that could be used). The actual z_extract_offset calculation in code was already handling the correct maximum size, but this documentation hadn't been updated. This updates the documentation, fixes several typos, moves the comment to header.S, updates references, and adds a note at the end of the decompressor include list to remind us about updating the comment in the future. (Instead of moving the comment to mkpiggy.c, where the calculation is currently happening, it is being moved to header.S because the calculations in mkpiggy.c will be removed in favor of header.S calculations in a following patch, and it seemed like overkill to move the giant comment twice, especially when there's already reference to z_extract_offset in header.S.) Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> [ Rewrote changelog, cleaned up comment style, moved comments around. ] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461185746-8017-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Sep-2015 |
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> |
kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load. kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c. And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse. The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking. Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work. Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to kexec_load syscall. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Aug-2015 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
Revert "x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers" This reverts commit: aeffc4928ea2 ("x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers") Linn reports that Signtool complains that kernels built with CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y are violating the PE/COFF specification because the 'SizeOfImage' field is not a multiple of 'SectionAlignment'. This violation was introduced as an optimisation to skip having the kernel relocate itself during boot and instead have the firmware place it at a correctly aligned address. No one else has complained and I'm not aware of any firmware implementations that refuse to boot with commit aeffc4928ea2, but it's a real bug, so revert the offending commit. Reported-by: Linn Crosetto <linn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438936621-5215-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Jul-2014 |
Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> |
x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers The EFI boot stub goes to great pains to relocate the kernel image to an appropriately aligned address, as indicated by the ->kernel_alignment field in the bzImage header. However, for the PE stub entry case, we can request that the EFI PE/COFF loader do the work for us. Fix by exposing the desired alignment via the SectionAlignment field in the PE/COFF headers. Despite its name, this field provides an overall alignment requirement for the loaded file. (Naturally, the FileAlignment field describes the alignment for individual sections.) There is no way in the PE/COFF headers to express the concept of min_alignment; we therefore do not expose the minimum (as opposed to preferred) alignment. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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09-Jul-2014 |
Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> |
x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the uninitialised-data portions. Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results. Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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06-Jun-2014 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86/boot: EFI_MIXED should not prohibit loading above 4G commit 7d453eee36ae ("x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED") introduced a regression for the functionality to load kernels above 4G. The relevant (incorrect) reasoning behind this change can be seen in the commit message, "The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y. XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits." This is obviously bogus since 32-bit EFI loaders will never place the kernel above the 4G mark. So this restriction is entirely unnecessary. But things are worse than that - since we want to encourage people to always compile with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y so that their kernels work out of the box for both 32-bit and 64-bit firmware, commit 7d453eee36ae effectively disables XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G completely. Remove the overzealous and superfluous restriction and restore the XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G functionality. Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402140380-15377-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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12-Mar-2014 |
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> |
x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size name The name in struct bootparam is ->initrd_addr_max and not ramdisk_max. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394633584-5509-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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10-Jan-2014 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED Add the Kconfig option and bump the kernel header version so that boot loaders can check whether the handover code is available if they want. The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y. XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits. Note that no boot loaders should be using the bits set in xloadflags to decide which entry point to jump to. The entire scheme is based on the concept that 32-bit bootloaders always jump to ->handover_offset and 64-bit loaders always jump to ->handover_offset + 512. We set both bits merely to inform the boot loader that it's safe to use the native handover offset even if the machine type in the PE/COFF header claims otherwise. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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01-Aug-2013 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86/boot: Cleanup header.S by removing some #ifdefs handover_offset is now filled out by build.c. Don't set a default value as it will be overwritten anyway. Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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20-Dec-2013 |
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> |
x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to initialize. In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI initialization can succeed finally. To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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28-Jan-2013 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
x86, boot: Support loading bzImage, boot_params and ramdisk above 4G xloadflags bit 1 indicates that we can load the kernel and all data structures above 4G; it is set if kernel is relocatable and 64bit. bootloader will check if xloadflags bit 1 is set to decide if it could load ramdisk and kernel high above 4G. bootloader will fill value to ext_ramdisk_image/size for high 32bits when it load ramdisk above 4G. kernel use get_ramdisk_image/size to use ext_ramdisk_image/size to get right positon for ramdisk. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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27-Jan-2013 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> |
x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to live above the 4 GiB mark. The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points are supported. Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness at least until the issue can be researched further. This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse. Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
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27-Oct-2012 |
Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> |
x86: remove dummy long from EFI stub Commit 2e064b1 (x86, efi: Fix issue of overlapping .reloc section for EFI_STUB) removed a dummy reloc added by commit 291f363 (x86, efi: EFI boot stub support), but forgot to remove the dummy long used by that reloc. Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Tested-by: Lee G Rosenbaum <lee.g.rosenbaum@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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19-Aug-2012 |
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> |
x86, boot: Remove obsolete and unused constant RAMDISK The named constant RAMDISK is unused. It used to set the (obsolete) kernel boot header field ram_size, but its usage for that purpose got dropped in commit 5e47c478b0b69bc9bc3ba544e4b1ca3268f98fef ("x86: remove zImage support"). Now remove this constant too. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345396003.1771.9.camel@x61.thuisdomein Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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19-Jul-2012 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86, efi: Handover Protocol As things currently stand, traditional EFI boot loaders and the EFI boot stub are carrying essentially the same initialisation code required to setup an EFI machine for booting a kernel. There's really no need to have this code in two places and the hope is that, with this new protocol, initialisation and booting of the kernel can be left solely to the kernel's EFI boot stub. The responsibilities of the boot loader then become, o Loading the kernel image from boot media File system code still needs to be carried by boot loaders for the scenario where the kernel and initrd files reside on a file system that the EFI firmware doesn't natively understand, such as ext4, etc. o Providing a user interface Boot loaders still need to display any menus/interfaces, for example to allow the user to select from a list of kernels. Bump the boot protocol number because we added the 'handover_offset' field to indicate the location of the handover protocol entry point. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Acked-and-Tested-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342689828-16815-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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20-Jun-2012 |
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> |
x86, boot: Remove ancient, unconditionally #ifdef'd out dead code Release v1.3.82 wrapped a few lines of code in an "#ifdef SAFE_RESET_DISK_CONTROLLER" and "#endif" pair. Since SAFE_RESET_DISK_CONTROLLER was never defined anywhere that was basically a verbose "#ifdef 0" and "#endif" pair. These dead lines have been in the tree for sixteen years but now the time has come to remove them. I guess the main lesson here is that if you want your dead code in the tree for a very long time you'd better be creative. A plain old "#ifdef 0" and "#endif" pair just doesn't cut it! See: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/199603301718.LAA00178@craie.inetnebr.com Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340230589.1773.7.camel@x61.thuisdomein Acked-by: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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07-Jun-2012 |
Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> |
x86, efi stub: Add .reloc section back into image Some UEFI firmware will not load a .efi with a .reloc section with a size of 0. Therefore, we create a .efi image with 4 main areas and 3 sections. 1. PE/COFF file header 2. .setup section (covers all setup code following the first sector) 3. .reloc section (contains 1 dummy reloc entry, created in build.c) 4. .text section (covers the remaining kernel image) To make room for the new .setup section data, the header bugger_off_msg had to be shortened. Reported-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339085121-12760-1-git-send-email-jordan.l.justen@intel.com Tested-by: Lee G Rosenbaum <lee.g.rosenbaum@intel.com> Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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23-Mar-2012 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86, efi: Fix NumberOfRvaAndSizes field in PE32 header for EFI_STUB We've actually got six data directories in the header, not one. Even though the firmware loader doesn't seem to mind, when we come to sign the kernel image the signing tool thinks that there is no Certificate Table data directory, even though we've allocated space for one. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332520506-6472-4-git-send-email-jordan.l.justen@intel.com Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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23-Mar-2012 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86, efi: Fix .text section overlapping image header for EFI_STUB This change modifes the PE .text section to start after the first sector of the kernel image. The header may be modified by the UEFI secure boot signing, so it is not appropriate for it to be included in one of the image sections. Since the sections are part of the secure boot hash, this modification to the .text section contents would invalidate the secure boot signed hash. Note: UEFI secure boot does hash the image header, but fields that are changed by the signing process are excluded from the hash calculation. This exclusion process is only handled for the image header, and not image sections. Luckily, we can still easily boot without the first sector by initializing a few fields in arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332520506-6472-3-git-send-email-jordan.l.justen@intel.com [jordan.l.justen@intel.com: set .text vma & file offset] Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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23-Mar-2012 |
Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> |
x86, efi: Fix issue of overlapping .reloc section for EFI_STUB Previously the .reloc section was embedded in the .text section. No relocations are required during the PE/COFF loading phase for the kernel using the EFI_STUB UEFI loader. To fix the issue of overlapping sections, create a .reloc section with a zero length. The .reloc section header must exist to make sure the image will be loaded by the UEFI firmware, but a zero-length section header seems to be sufficient. Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332520506-6472-2-git-send-email-jordan.l.justen@intel.com Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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12-Dec-2011 |
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> |
x86, efi: EFI boot stub support There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As H. Peter Anvin put it, "The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as well." This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot environment. The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI shell, e.g. Shell> bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img v7: - Fix checkpatch warnings. v6: - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max. v5: - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert to the corresponding ASCII size. v4: - Don't read more than image->load_options_size v3: - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’: arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’ arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’ - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol. - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline - Don't trust image->load_options_size Maarten Lankhorst noted: - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names v2: - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by Maarten Lankhorst on LKML. - Added UGA support for graphics - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number. - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which triggers this error in decompress_kernel(), if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff)) error("Destination address too large"); Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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14-Aug-2011 |
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> |
doc: fix broken references There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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17-Oct-2009 |
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated Fix up all users of utsrelease.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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20-May-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need during decompression). One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled. [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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07-May-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor. There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain, but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields. Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB extension. Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing (type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version number. [ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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11-May-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention, memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary. Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear memory the kernel will require during initialization. [ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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11-May-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S. Also, export a few additional symbols. This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory footprint of the kernel. [ Impact: enable future enhancement ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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01-Apr-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> |
x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure Impact: new interfaces (not yet used) For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy BIOSes. This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set, perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state. LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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11-Mar-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86: remove zImage support Impact: obsolete feature removal The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long time. It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that anyone ever uses it. Furthermore, although it is still supported by most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and not having even noticed. Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any meaning. LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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13-Feb-2009 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> |
x86: use _types.h headers in asm where available In general, the only definitions that assembly files can use are in _types.S headers (where available), so convert them. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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16-Sep-2008 |
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> |
x86 setup: drop SWAP_DEV Impact: None (cleanup) SWAP_DEV is unused since 2.6.23-rc1. The comment was already incorrect since (at least) 2.6.12. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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27-Mar-2008 |
Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> |
x86, boot: add linked list of struct setup_data This patch adds a field of 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of struct setup_data to real-mode kernel header. This is used as a more extensible boot parameters passing mechanism. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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19-Feb-2008 |
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> |
x86: boot protocol updates Also update field names to simply payload_{offset,length} so as to not rule out uncompressed images. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Feb-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
x86: bump image header to version 2.08. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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13-Feb-2008 |
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> |
x86: use ELF format in compressed images. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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30-Jan-2008 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
i386: handle an initrd in highmem (version 2) The boot protocol has until now required that the initrd be located in lowmem, which makes the lowmem/highmem boundary visible to the boot loader. This was exported to the bootloader via a compile-time field. Unfortunately, the vmalloc= command-line option breaks this part of the protocol; instead of adding yet another hack that affects the bootloader, have the kernel relocate the initrd down below the lowmem boundary inside the kernel itself. Note that this does not rely on HIGHMEM being enabled in the kernel. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Nov-2007 |
Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@lippert-at.de> |
x86 setup: don't recalculate ss:esp unless really necessary In order to work around old LILO versions providing an invalid ss register, the current setup code always sets up a new stack, immediately following .bss and the heap. But this breaks LOADLIN. This rewrite of the workaround checks for an invalid stack (ss!=ds) first, and leaves ss:sp alone otherwise (apart from aligning esp). [hpa note: LOADLIN has a number of arbitrary hard-coded limits that are being pushed up against. Without some major revision of LOADLIN itself it will not be sustainable keeping it alive. This gives it another brief lease on life, however. This patch also helps the cmdline truncation problem with old versions of SYSLINUX.] Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann at LiPPERT-AT. de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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25-Oct-2007 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
x86 setup: handle boot loaders which set up the stack incorrectly Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a stack pointer that doesn't match the rest of the segments. Make our best attempt at untangling the resulting mess. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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21-Oct-2007 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
i386: paravirt boot sequence This patch uses the updated boot protocol to do paravirtualized boot. If the boot version is >= 2.07, then it will do two things: 1. Check the bootparams loadflags to see if we should reload the segment registers and clear interrupts. This is appropriate for normal native boot and some paravirtualized environments, but inapproprate for others. 2. Check the hardware architecture, and dispatch to the appropriate kernel entrypoint. If the bootloader doesn't set this, then we simply do the normal boot sequence. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Oct-2007 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
i386: move boot Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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