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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 07:18:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 07:18:09 -0700
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: - Support for new architectural features introduced in ARMv8.1: * Privileged Access Never (PAN) to catch user pointer dereferences in the kernel * Large System Extension (LSE) for building scalable atomics and locks (depends on locking/arch-atomic from tip, which is included here) * Hardware Dirty Bit Management (DBM) for updating clean PTEs automatically - Move our PSCI implementation out into drivers/firmware/, where it can be shared with arch/arm/. RMK has also pulled this component branch and has additional patches moving arch/arm/ over. MAINTAINERS is updated accordingly. - Better BUG implementation based on the BRK instruction for trapping - Leaf TLB invalidation for unmapping user pages - Support for PROBE_ONLY PCI configurations - Various cleanups and non-critical fixes, including: * Always flush FP/SIMD state over exec() * Restrict memblock additions based on range of linear mapping * Ensure *(LIST_POISON) generates a fatal fault * Context-tracking syscall return no longer corrupts return value when not forced on. * Alternatives patching synchronisation/stability improvements * Signed sub-word cmpxchg compare fix (tickled by HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL) * Force SMP=y * Hide direct DCC access from userspace * Fix EFI stub memory allocation when DRAM starts at 0x0 * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (92 commits) arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve() arm64: makefile: fix perf_callchain.o kconfig dependency arm64: set MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR according to linear region size of/fdt: make memblock maximum physical address arch configurable arm64: Fix source code file path in comments arm64: entry: always restore x0 from the stack on syscall return arm64: mdscr_el1: avoid exposing DCC to userspace arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value arm64: Add __exception_irq_entry definition for function graph arm64: mm: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU arm64: alternatives: ensure secondary CPUs execute ISB after patching arm64: make ll/sc __cmpxchg_case_##name asm consistent arm64: dma-mapping: Simplify pgprot handling arm64: restore cpu suspend/resume functionality ARM64: PCI: do not enable resources on PROBE_ONLY systems arm64: cmpxchg: truncate sub-word signed types before comparison arm64: alternative: put secondary CPUs into polling loop during patch arm64/Documentation: clarify wording regarding memory below the Image arm64: lse: fix lse cmpxchg code indentation arm64: remove redundant object file list ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/booting.txt11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
index 1690350f16e7..7d9d3c2286b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */
u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */
u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
- u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */
+ u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */
Header notes:
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Header notes:
- The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field
composed as follows:
- Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
+ Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
Bits 1-63: Reserved.
- When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
@@ -115,11 +115,14 @@ The Image must be placed text_offset bytes from a 2MB aligned base
address near the start of usable system RAM and called there. Memory
below that base address is currently unusable by Linux, and therefore it
is strongly recommended that this location is the start of system RAM.
+The region between the 2 MB aligned base address and the start of the
+image has no special significance to the kernel, and may be used for
+other purposes.
At least image_size bytes from the start of the image must be free for
use by the kernel.
-Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the 2MB aligned base
-address) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel e.g. with a
+Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the start of the
+image) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel (e.g., with a
memreserve region in the device tree) will be considered as available to
the kernel.