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authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>2016-02-16 13:52:36 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-02-18 18:16:27 +0000
commitab893fb9f1b17f02139bce547bb4b69e96b9ae16 (patch)
treed1ae69d0b542ce1655a0e609f00cff998499b04f /arch/arm64/kernel
parent324420bf91f60582bb481133db9547111768ef17 (diff)
downloadlinux-ab893fb9f1b17f02139bce547bb4b69e96b9ae16.tar.bz2
arm64: introduce KIMAGE_VADDR as the virtual base of the kernel region
This introduces the preprocessor symbol KIMAGE_VADDR which will serve as the symbolic virtual base of the kernel region, i.e., the kernel's virtual offset will be KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET. For now, we define it as being equal to PAGE_OFFSET, but in the future, it will be moved below it once we move the kernel virtual mapping out of the linear mapping. Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/head.S2
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 53b9f9f128c2..04d38a058b19 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ __create_page_tables:
* Map the kernel image (starting with PHYS_OFFSET).
*/
mov x0, x26 // swapper_pg_dir
- mov x5, #PAGE_OFFSET
+ ldr x5, =KIMAGE_VADDR
create_pgd_entry x0, x5, x3, x6
ldr x6, =KERNEL_END // __va(KERNEL_END)
mov x3, x24 // phys offset
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b78a3c772294..282e3e64a17e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ SECTIONS
*(.discard.*)
}
- . = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
+ . = KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET;
.head.text : {
_text = .;
@@ -186,4 +186,4 @@ ASSERT(__idmap_text_end - (__idmap_text_start & ~(SZ_4K - 1)) <= SZ_4K,
/*
* If padding is applied before .head.text, virt<->phys conversions will fail.
*/
-ASSERT(_text == (PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET), "HEAD is misaligned")
+ASSERT(_text == (KIMAGE_VADDR + TEXT_OFFSET), "HEAD is misaligned")