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authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>2019-05-24 15:38:08 +0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-06-28 07:14:59 +0200
commitf2d08c5d3bcf3f7ef788af122b57a919efa1e9d0 (patch)
tree680b946016974525613f2475fb686a3a4a22e1b9 /arch/x86/boot/header.S
parent2238246ff8d533a5f2327d1f953375876d8a013c (diff)
x86/boot: Add xloadflags bits to check for 5-level paging support
The current kernel supports 5-level paging mode, and supports dynamically choosing the paging mode during bootup depending on the kernel image, hardware and kernel parameter settings. This flexibility brings several issues to kexec/kdump: 1) Dynamic switching between paging modes requires support in the target kernel. This means kexec from a 5-level paging kernel into a kernel which does not support mode switching is not possible. So the loader needs to be able to analyze the supported paging modes of the kexec target kernel. 2) If running on a 5-level paging kernel and the kexec target kernel is a 4-level paging kernel, the target immage cannot be loaded above the 64TB address space limit. But the kexec loader searches for a load area from top to bottom which would eventually put the target kernel above 64TB when the machine has large enough RAM size. So the loader needs to be able to analyze the paging mode of the target kernel to load it at a suitable spot in the address space. Solution: Add two bits XLF_5LEVEL and XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED: - Bit XLF_5LEVEL indicates whether 5-level paging mode switching support is available. (Issue #1) - Bit XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED indicates whether the kernel was compiled with full 5-level paging support (CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y). (Issue #2) The loader will use these bits to verify whether the target kernel is suitable to be kexec'ed to from a 5-level paging kernel and to determine the constraints of the target kernel load address. The flags will be used by the kernel kexec subsystem and the userspace kexec tools. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: dyoung@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-2-bhe@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/header.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/header.S12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index 850b8762e889..be19f4199727 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -419,7 +419,17 @@ xloadflags:
# define XLF4 0
#endif
- .word XLF0 | XLF1 | XLF23 | XLF4
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
+#define XLF56 (XLF_5LEVEL|XLF_5LEVEL_ENABLED)
+#else
+#define XLF56 XLF_5LEVEL
+#endif
+#else
+#define XLF56 0
+#endif
+
+ .word XLF0 | XLF1 | XLF23 | XLF4 | XLF56
cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line,
#added with boot protocol