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authorDaniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>2019-11-12 14:46:40 +0100
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2019-11-12 16:21:15 +0100
commitb3c72fc9a78e74161f9d05ef7191706060628f8c (patch)
treeefcd2356602631b630e8b8af7d9fa5158ba401f4 /mm
parent00cd1c154d565c62ad5e065bf3530f68bdf59490 (diff)
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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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