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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-07-21 14:16:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-22 11:46:01 +0200 |
| commit | 30f027398b329c75c8f23a3c13be240b50866fdc (patch) | |
| tree | e5709cc23928e7f7e0e7cda42708187d9b124bc5 /arch | |
| parent | edce21216a8887bf06ba85ee49a00695e44c4341 (diff) | |
| download | linux-30f027398b329c75c8f23a3c13be240b50866fdc.tar.bz2 | |
x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
It doesn't just control probing for the EBDA -- it controls whether we
detect and reserve the <1MB BIOS regions in general.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55bd591115498440d461857a7b64f349a5d911f3.1469135598.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h index c519c052700a..66c15a01667f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h @@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ struct x86_legacy_devices { * struct x86_legacy_features - legacy x86 features * * @rtc: this device has a CMOS real-time clock present - * @reserve_bios_regions: it's safe to search for the EBDA signature in the hardware's - * low RAM + * @reserve_bios_regions: boot code will search for the EBDA address and the + * start of the 640k - 1M BIOS region. If false, the platform must + * ensure that its memory map correctly reserves sub-1MB regions as needed. * @devices: legacy x86 devices, refer to struct x86_legacy_devices * documentation for further details. */ |