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<title>x86/efistub: Disable paging at mixed mode entry</title>
<updated>2019-12-25T09:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-24T13:29:09+00:00</published>
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The EFI mixed mode entry code goes through the ordinary startup_32()
routine before jumping into the kernel's EFI boot code in 64-bit
mode. The 32-bit startup code must be entered with paging disabled,
but this is not documented as a requirement for the EFI handover
protocol, and so we should disable paging explicitly when entering
the kernel from 32-bit EFI firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The EFI mixed mode entry code goes through the ordinary startup_32()
routine before jumping into the kernel's EFI boot code in 64-bit
mode. The 32-bit startup code must be entered with paging disabled,
but this is not documented as a requirement for the EFI handover
protocol, and so we should disable paging explicitly when entering
the kernel from 32-bit EFI firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to be specified</title>
<updated>2019-12-14T06:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Golovin</name>
<email>dima@golovin.in</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T22:54:41+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new READELF variable to top-level Makefile, so the name of
readelf binary can be specified.

Before this change the name of the binary was hardcoded to
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)readelf" which might not be present for every
toolchain.

This allows to build with LLVM Object Reader by using make parameter
READELF=llvm-readelf.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/771
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce a new READELF variable to top-level Makefile, so the name of
readelf binary can be specified.

Before this change the name of the binary was hardcoded to
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)readelf" which might not be present for every
toolchain.

This allows to build with LLVM Object Reader by using make parameter
READELF=llvm-readelf.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/771
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'acpi-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T03:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T03:25:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
  20191018, add support for EFI specific purpose memory, update the ACPI
  EC driver to make it work on systems with hardware-reduced ACPI,
  improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms, rework the
  lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more lid quirks to
  it, unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching, fix assorted issues and clean up
  the code and documentation.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20191018
     including:
      * Fixes for Clang warnings (Bob Moore)
      * Fix for possible overflow in get_tick_count() (Bob Moore)
      * Introduction of acpi_unload_table() (Bob Moore)
      * Debugger and utilities updates (Erik Schmauss)
      * Fix for unloading tables loaded via configfs (Nikolaus Voss)

   - Add support for EFI specific purpose memory to optionally allow
     either application-exclusive or core-kernel-mm managed access to
     differentiated memory (Dan Williams)

   - Fix and clean up processing of the HMAT table (Brice Goglin, Qian
     Cai, Tao Xu)

   - Update the ACPI EC driver to make it work on systems with
     hardware-reduced ACPI (Daniel Drake)

   - Always build in support for the Generic Event Device (GED) to allow
     one kernel binary to work both on systems with full hardware ACPI
     and hardware-reduced ACPI (Arjan van de Ven)

   - Fix the table unload mechanism to unregister platform devices
     created when the given table was loaded (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Rework the lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more
     lid quirks to it (Hans de Goede)

   - Improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms based on
     Intel BayTrail SoCs (Hans de Goede)

   - Add an OpRegion driver for the Cherry Trail Crystal Cove PMIC and
     prevent handlers from being registered for unhandled PMIC OpRegions
     (Hans de Goede)

   - Unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Clean up documentation and comments (Cao jin, James Pack, Kacper
     Piwiński)"

* tag 'acpi-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (52 commits)
  ACPI: OSI: Shoot duplicate word
  ACPI: HMAT: use %u instead of %d to print u32 values
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: fix a section mismatch
  ACPI: HMAT: don't mix pxm and nid when setting memory target processor_pxm
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register "soft reserved" memory as an "hmem" device
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register HMAT at device_initcall level
  device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
  dax: Fix alloc_dax_region() compile warning
  lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator
  x86/efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for EFI_MEMORY_SP
  arm/efi: EFI soft reservation to memblock
  x86/efi: EFI soft reservation to E820 enumeration
  efi: Common enable/disable infrastructure for EFI soft reservation
  x86/efi: Push EFI_MEMMAP check into leaf routines
  efi: Enumerate EFI_MEMORY_SP
  ACPI: NUMA: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory
  ACPICA: Update version to 20191018
  ACPICA: debugger: remove leading whitespaces when converting a string to a buffer
  ACPICA: acpiexec: initialize all simple types and field units from user input
  ACPICA: debugger: add field unit support for acpi_db_get_next_token
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
  20191018, add support for EFI specific purpose memory, update the ACPI
  EC driver to make it work on systems with hardware-reduced ACPI,
  improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms, rework the
  lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more lid quirks to
  it, unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching, fix assorted issues and clean up
  the code and documentation.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20191018
     including:
      * Fixes for Clang warnings (Bob Moore)
      * Fix for possible overflow in get_tick_count() (Bob Moore)
      * Introduction of acpi_unload_table() (Bob Moore)
      * Debugger and utilities updates (Erik Schmauss)
      * Fix for unloading tables loaded via configfs (Nikolaus Voss)

   - Add support for EFI specific purpose memory to optionally allow
     either application-exclusive or core-kernel-mm managed access to
     differentiated memory (Dan Williams)

   - Fix and clean up processing of the HMAT table (Brice Goglin, Qian
     Cai, Tao Xu)

   - Update the ACPI EC driver to make it work on systems with
     hardware-reduced ACPI (Daniel Drake)

   - Always build in support for the Generic Event Device (GED) to allow
     one kernel binary to work both on systems with full hardware ACPI
     and hardware-reduced ACPI (Arjan van de Ven)

   - Fix the table unload mechanism to unregister platform devices
     created when the given table was loaded (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Rework the lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more
     lid quirks to it (Hans de Goede)

   - Improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms based on
     Intel BayTrail SoCs (Hans de Goede)

   - Add an OpRegion driver for the Cherry Trail Crystal Cove PMIC and
     prevent handlers from being registered for unhandled PMIC OpRegions
     (Hans de Goede)

   - Unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Clean up documentation and comments (Cao jin, James Pack, Kacper
     Piwiński)"

* tag 'acpi-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (52 commits)
  ACPI: OSI: Shoot duplicate word
  ACPI: HMAT: use %u instead of %d to print u32 values
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: fix a section mismatch
  ACPI: HMAT: don't mix pxm and nid when setting memory target processor_pxm
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register "soft reserved" memory as an "hmem" device
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register HMAT at device_initcall level
  device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
  dax: Fix alloc_dax_region() compile warning
  lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator
  x86/efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for EFI_MEMORY_SP
  arm/efi: EFI soft reservation to memblock
  x86/efi: EFI soft reservation to E820 enumeration
  efi: Common enable/disable infrastructure for EFI soft reservation
  x86/efi: Push EFI_MEMMAP check into leaf routines
  efi: Enumerate EFI_MEMORY_SP
  ACPI: NUMA: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory
  ACPICA: Update version to 20191018
  ACPICA: debugger: remove leading whitespaces when converting a string to a buffer
  ACPICA: acpiexec: initialize all simple types and field units from user input
  ACPICA: debugger: add field unit support for acpi_db_get_next_token
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T22:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T22:52:11+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Wire up the EFI RNG code for x86. This enables an additional source
     of entropy during early boot.

   - Enable the TPM event log code on ARM platforms.

   - Update Ard's email address"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi: libstub/tpm: enable tpm eventlog function for ARM platforms
  x86: efi/random: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/random: use arch-independent efi_call_proto()
  MAINTAINERS: update Ard's email address to @kernel.org
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Wire up the EFI RNG code for x86. This enables an additional source
     of entropy during early boot.

   - Enable the TPM event log code on ARM platforms.

   - Update Ard's email address"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi: libstub/tpm: enable tpm eventlog function for ARM platforms
  x86: efi/random: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/random: use arch-independent efi_call_proto()
  MAINTAINERS: update Ard's email address to @kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T16:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T16:40:20+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes were:

   - Extend the boot protocol to allow future extensions without hitting
     the setup_header size limit.

   - Add quirk to devicetree systems to disable the RTC unless it's
     listed as a supported device.

   - Fix ld.lld linker pedantry"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info
  x86/init: Allow DT configured systems to disable RTC at boot time
  x86/realmode: Explicitly set entry point via ENTRY in linker script
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes were:

   - Extend the boot protocol to allow future extensions without hitting
     the setup_header size limit.

   - Add quirk to devicetree systems to disable the RTC unless it's
     listed as a supported device.

   - Fix ld.lld linker pedantry"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info
  x86/init: Allow DT configured systems to disable RTC at boot time
  x86/realmode: Explicitly set entry point via ENTRY in linker script
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/build' into x86/asm, to pick up completed topic branch</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T08:05:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-25T08:05:09+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T15:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T13:46:40+00:00</published>
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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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T15:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T13:46:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=00cd1c154d565c62ad5e065bf3530f68bdf59490'/>
<id>00cd1c154d565c62ad5e065bf3530f68bdf59490</id>
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This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data.

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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-3-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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<pre>
This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data.

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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-3-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T15:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T13:46:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2c33c27fd6033ced942c9a591b8ac15c07c57d70'/>
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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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson &lt;ross.philipson@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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