Align x86 with other EFI architectures, and increase the section
alignment to the EFI page size (4k), so that firmware is able to honour
the section permission attributes and map code read-only and data
non-executable.
There are a number of requirements that have to be taken into account:
- the sign tools get cranky when there are gaps between sections in the
file view of the image
- the virtual offset of each section must be aligned to the image's
section alignment
- the file offset *and size* of each section must be aligned to the
image's file alignment
- the image size must be aligned to the section alignment
- each section's virtual offset must be greater than or equal to the
size of the headers.
In order to meet all these requirements, while avoiding the need for
lots of padding to accommodate the .compat section, the latter is placed
at an arbitrary offset towards the end of the image, but aligned to the
minimum file alignment (512 bytes). The space before the .text section
is therefore distributed between the PE header, the .setup section and
the .compat section, leaving no gaps in the file coverage, making the
signing tools happy.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-18-ardb@google.com
Describe the code and data of the decompressor binary using separate
.text and .data PE/COFF sections, so that we will be able to map them
using restricted permissions once we increase the section and file
alignment sufficiently. This avoids the need for memory mappings that
are writable and executable at the same time, which is something that
is best avoided for security reasons.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-17-ardb@google.com
Ancient buggy EFI loaders may have required a .reloc section to be
present at some point in time, but this has not been true for a long
time so the .reloc section can just be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-16-ardb@google.com
Now that the size of the setup block is visible to the assembler, it is
possible to populate the PE/COFF header fields from the asm code
directly, instead of poking the values into the binary using the build
tool. This will make it easier to reorganize the section layout without
having to tweak the build tool in lockstep.
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-15-ardb@google.com
Tweak the linker script so that the value of _edata represents the
decompressor binary's file size rounded up to the appropriate alignment.
This removes the need to calculate it in the build tool, and will make
it easier to refer to the file size from the header directly in
subsequent changes to the PE header layout.
While adding _edata to the sed regex that parses the compressed
vmlinux's symbol list, tweak the regex a bit for conciseness.
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary when
configured with CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-14-ardb@google.com
The setup block contains the real mode startup code that is used when
booting from a legacy BIOS, along with the boot_params/setup_data that
is used by legacy x86 bootloaders to pass the command line and initial
ramdisk parameters, among other things.
The setup block also contains the PE/COFF header of the entire combined
image, which includes the compressed kernel image, the decompressor and
the EFI stub.
This PE header describes the layout of the executable image in memory,
and currently, the fact that the setup block precedes it makes it rather
fiddly to get the right values into the right place in the final image.
Let's make things a bit easier by defining the setup_size in the linker
script so it can be referenced from the asm code directly, rather than
having to rely on the build tool to calculate it. For the time being,
add 64 bytes of fixed padding for the .reloc and .compat sections - this
will be removed in a subsequent patch after the PE/COFF header has been
reorganized.
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary when
configured with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-13-ardb@google.com
The offsets of the EFI handover entrypoints are available to the
assembler when constructing the header, so there is no need to set them
from the build tool afterwards.
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-12-ardb@google.com
Instead of parsing zoffset.h and poking the kernel_info offset value
into the header from the build tool, just grab the value directly in the
asm file that describes this header.
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-11-ardb@google.com
The root device defaults to 0,0 and is no longer configurable at build
time [0], so there is no need for the build tool to ever write to this
field.
[0] 079f85e624 ("x86, build: Do not set the root_dev field in bzImage")
This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-23-ardb@google.com
Now that the EFI stub decompresses the kernel and hands over to the
decompressed image directly, there is no longer a need to provide a
decompression buffer as part of the .BSS allocation of the PE/COFF
image. It also means the PE/COFF image can be loaded anywhere in memory,
and setting the preferred image base is unnecessary. So drop the
handling of this from the header and from the build tool.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-22-ardb@google.com
Ancient (pre-2003) x86 kernels could boot from a floppy disk straight from
the BIOS, using a small real mode boot stub at the start of the image
where the BIOS would expect the boot record (or boot block) to appear.
Due to its limitations (kernel size < 1 MiB, no support for IDE, USB or
El Torito floppy emulation), this support was dropped, and a Linux aware
bootloader is now always required to boot the kernel from a legacy BIOS.
To smoothen this transition, the boot stub was not removed entirely, but
replaced with one that just prints an error message telling the user to
install a bootloader.
As it is unlikely that anyone doing direct floppy boot with such an
ancient kernel is going to upgrade to v6.5+ and expect that this boot
method still works, printing this message is kind of pointless, and so
it should be possible to remove the logic that emits it.
Let's free up this space so it can be used to expand the PE header in a
subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-21-ardb@google.com
The section header flags for alignment are documented in the PE/COFF
spec as being applicable to PE object files only, not to PE executables
such as the Linux bzImage, so let's drop them from the PE header.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-20-ardb@google.com
Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning
up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more
closely match the structure of the source directories it describes.
All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated.
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build dependencies.
Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional with the goal of
removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there
- Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround
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Merge tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
"A of early boot cleanups and fixes.
- Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there
- Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"
* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
GRUB currently relies on the magic number in the image header of ARM and
arm64 EFI kernel images to decide whether or not the image in question
is a bootable kernel.
However, the purpose of the magic number is to identify the image as one
that implements the bare metal boot protocol, and so GRUB, which only
does EFI boot, is limited unnecessarily to booting images that could
potentially be booted in a non-EFI manner as well.
This is problematic for the new zboot decompressor image format, as it
can only boot in EFI mode, and must therefore not use the bare metal
boot magic number in its header.
For this reason, the strict magic number was dropped from GRUB, to
permit essentially any kind of EFI executable to be booted via the
'linux' command, blurring the line between the linux loader and the
chainloader.
So let's use the same field in the DOS header that RISC-V and arm64
already use for their 'bare metal' magic numbers to store a 'generic
Linux kernel' magic number, which can be used to identify bootable
kernel images in PE format which don't necessarily implement a bare
metal boot protocol in the same binary. Note that, in the context of
EFI, the MS-DOS header is only described in terms of the fields that it
shares with the hybrid PE/COFF image format, (i.e., the MS-DOS EXE magic
number at offset #0 and the PE header offset at byte offset #0x3c).
Since we aim for compatibility with EFI only, and not with MS-DOS or
MS-Windows, we can use the remaining space in the MS-DOS header however
we want.
Let's set the generic magic number for x86 images as well: existing
bootloaders already have their own methods to identify x86 Linux images
that can be booted in a non-EFI manner, and having the magic number in
place there will ease any future transitions in loader implementations
to merge the x86 and non-x86 EFI boot paths.
Note that 32-bit ARM already uses the same location in the header for a
different purpose, but the ARM support is already widely implemented and
the EFI zboot decompressor is not available on ARM anyway, so we just
disregard it here.
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
The EFI handover protocol permits a bootloader to invoke the kernel as a
EFI PE/COFF application, while passing a bootparams struct as a third
argument to the entrypoint function call.
This has no basis in the UEFI specification, and there are better ways
to pass additional data to a UEFI application (UEFI configuration
tables, UEFI variables, UEFI protocols) than going around the
StartImage() boot service and jumping to a fixed offset in the loaded
image, just to call a different function that takes a third parameter.
The reason for handling struct bootparams in the bootloader was that the
EFI stub could only load initrd images from the EFI system partition,
and so passing it via struct bootparams was needed for loaders like
GRUB, which pass the initrd in memory, and may load it from anywhere,
including from the network. Another motivation was EFI mixed mode, which
could not use the initrd loader in the EFI stub at all due to 32/64 bit
incompatibilities (which will be fixed shortly [0]), and could not
invoke the ordinary PE/COFF entry point either, for the same reasons.
Given that loaders such as GRUB already carried the bootparams handling
in order to implement non-EFI boot, retaining that code and just passing
bootparams to the EFI stub was a reasonable choice (although defining an
alternate entrypoint could have been avoided.) However, the GRUB side
changes never made it upstream, and are only shipped by some of the
distros in their downstream versions.
In the meantime, EFI support has been added to other Linux architecture
ports, as well as to U-boot and systemd, including arch-agnostic methods
for passing initrd images in memory [1], and for doing mixed mode boot
[2], none of them requiring anything like the EFI handover protocol. So
given that only out-of-tree distro GRUB relies on this, let's permit it
to be omitted from the build, in preparation for retiring it completely
at a later date. (Note that systemd-boot does have an implementation as
well, but only uses it as a fallback for booting images that do not
implement the LoadFile2 based initrd loading method, i.e., v5.8 or older)
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927085842.2860715-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] ec93fc371f ("efi/libstub: Add support for loading the initrd from a device path")
[2] 97aa276579 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122161017.2426828-18-ardb@kernel.org
Commit 21b68da7bf4a ("efi: x86: Set the NX-compatibility flag in the PE
header") intends to set the compatibility flag, i.e.,
IMAGE_DLL_CHARACTERISTICS_NX_COMPAT, but this ifdef is actually dead as
the CONFIG_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES Kconfig option does not exist.
The config is actually called EFI_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES. Adjust the ifdef
to use the intended config name.
The issue was identified with ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py.
Fixes: 21b68da7bf4a ("efi: x86: Set the NX-compatibility flag in the PE header")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220601115043.7678-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Following Baskov Evgeniy's "Handle UEFI NX-restricted page tables"
patches, it's safe to set this compatibility flag to let loaders know
they don't need to make special accommodations for kernel to load if
pre-boot NX is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220329184743.798513-1-pjones@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Bump the ZO_z_extra_bytes margin for zstd.
Zstd needs 3 bytes per 128 KB, and has a 22 byte fixed overhead.
Zstd needs to maintain 128 KB of space at all times, since that is
the maximum block size. See the comments regarding in-place
decompression added in lib/decompress_unzstd.c for details.
The existing code is written so that all the compression algorithms use
the same ZO_z_extra_bytes. It is taken to be the maximum of the growth
rate plus the maximum fixed overhead. The comments just above this diff
state that:
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-6-nickrterrell@gmail.com
Store the kernel's link address as ImageBase in the PE header. Note that
the PE specification requires the ImageBase to be 64k aligned. The
preferred address should almost always satisfy that, except for 32-bit
kernel if the configuration has been customized.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-4-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-18-ardb@kernel.org
Now that we have added new ways to load the initrd or the mixed mode
kernel, we will also need a way to tell the loader about this. Add
symbolic constants for the PE/COFF major/minor version numbers (which
fortunately have always been 0x0 for all architectures), so that we
can bump them later to document the capabilities of the stub.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Replace bare numbers in the PE/COFF header structure with symbolic
constants so they become self documenting.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Currently, mixed mode is closely tied to the EFI handover protocol
and relies on intimate knowledge of the bootparams structure, setup
header etc, all of which are rather byzantine and entirely specific
to x86.
Even though no other EFI supported architectures are currently known
that could support something like mixed mode, it still makes sense to
abstract a bit from this, and make it part of a generic Linux on EFI
boot protocol.
To that end, add a .compat section to the mixed mode binary, and populate
it with the PE machine type and entry point address, allowing firmware
implementations to match it to their native machine type, and invoke
non-native binaries using a secondary entry point.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
In commit
c7fb93ec51 ("x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers")
we added a separate .bss section to the PE/COFF header of the compressed
kernel describing the static memory footprint of the decompressor, to
ensure that it has enough headroom to decompress itself.
We can achieve the exact same result by increasing the virtual size of
the .text section, without changing the raw size, which, as per the
PE/COFF specification, requires the loader to zero initialize the delta.
Doing so frees up a slot in the section table, which we will use later
to describe the mixed mode entrypoint.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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
The relationships between the headers are analogous to the various data
sections:
setup_header = .data
boot_params/setup_data = .bss
What is missing from the above list? That's right:
kernel_info = .rodata
We have been (ab)using .data for things that could go into .rodata or .bss for
a long time, for lack of alternatives and -- especially early on -- inertia.
Also, the BIOS stub is responsible for creating boot_params, so it isn't
available to a BIOS-based loader (setup_data is, though).
setup_header is permanently limited to 144 bytes due to the reach of the
2-byte jump field, which doubles as a length field for the structure, combined
with the size of the "hole" in struct boot_params that a protected-mode loader
or the BIOS stub has to copy it into. It is currently 119 bytes long, which
leaves us with 25 very precious bytes. This isn't something that can be fixed
without revising the boot protocol entirely, breaking backwards compatibility.
boot_params proper is limited to 4096 bytes, but can be arbitrarily extended
by adding setup_data entries. It cannot be used to communicate properties of
the kernel image, because it is .bss and has no image-provided content.
kernel_info solves this by providing an extensible place for information about
the kernel image. It is readonly, because the kernel cannot rely on a
bootloader copying its contents anywhere, but that is OK; if it becomes
necessary it can still contain data items that an enabled bootloader would be
expected to copy into a setup_data chunk.
Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it
will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot
protocol.
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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.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/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
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
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Peter Anvin pointed out that commit:
ae7e1238e6 ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")
should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the
legacy BIOS.
So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit
of:
e7b66d16fe ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available")
just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by
a boot_params in a followup patch.
Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.
For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).
While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.
There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.
From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The <generated/utsrelease.h> defines UTS_RELEASE, but I do not
see any reference to it in arch/x86/boot/header.S.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505921232-8960-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current slack space is not enough for LZ4, which has a worst case
overhead of 0.4% for data that cannot be further compressed. With
an LZ4 compressed kernel with an embedded initrd, the output is likely
to overwrite the input.
Increase the slack space to avoid that.
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503842124-29718-1-git-send-email-jschoenh@amazon.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There's an assembly guard in asm/e820/types.h, and only
a single .S file includes this header: arch/x86/boot/header.S,
but it does not actually make use of any of the E820 defines.
Remove the inclusion and remove the assembly guard as well.
No change in functionality.
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In line with asm/e820/types.h, move the e820 API declarations to
asm/e820/api.h and update all usage sites.
This is just a mechanical, obviously correct move & replace patch,
there will be subsequent changes to clean up the code and to make
better use of the new header organization.
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c.
This doesn't work well because mkpiggy.c doesn't know the details of the
decompressor in use. As a result, it can only make an estimation, which
has risks:
- output + output_len (VO) could be much bigger than input + input_len
(ZO). In this case, the decompressed kernel plus relocs could overwrite
the decompression code while it is running.
- The head code of ZO could be bigger than z_extract_offset. In this case
an overwrite could happen when the head code is running to move ZO to
the end of buffer. Though currently the size of the head code is very
small it's still a potential risk. Since there is no rule to limit the
size of the head code of ZO, it runs the risk of suddenly becoming a
(hard to find) bug.
Instead, this moves the z_extract_offset calculation into header.S, and
makes adjustments to be sure that the above two cases can never happen,
and further corrects the comments describing the calculations.
Since we have (in the previous patch) made ZO always be located against
the end of decompression buffer, z_extract_offset is only used here to
calculate an appropriate buffer size (INIT_SIZE), and is not longer used
elsewhere. As such, it can be removed from voffset.h.
Additionally clean up #if/#else #define to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
[ Rewrote the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The comment that describes the analysis for the size of the decompressor
code only took gzip into account (there are currently 6 other decompressors
that could be used). The actual z_extract_offset calculation in code was
already handling the correct maximum size, but this documentation hadn't
been updated. This updates the documentation, fixes several typos, moves
the comment to header.S, updates references, and adds a note at the end
of the decompressor include list to remind us about updating the comment
in the future.
(Instead of moving the comment to mkpiggy.c, where the calculation
is currently happening, it is being moved to header.S because
the calculations in mkpiggy.c will be removed in favor of header.S
calculations in a following patch, and it seemed like overkill to move
the giant comment twice, especially when there's already reference to
z_extract_offset in header.S.)
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
[ Rewrote changelog, cleaned up comment style, moved comments around. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461185746-8017-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.
And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.
The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.
Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.
Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit:
aeffc4928e ("x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers")
Linn reports that Signtool complains that kernels built with
CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y are violating the PE/COFF specification because
the 'SizeOfImage' field is not a multiple of 'SectionAlignment'.
This violation was introduced as an optimisation to skip having
the kernel relocate itself during boot and instead have the
firmware place it at a correctly aligned address.
No one else has complained and I'm not aware of any firmware
implementations that refuse to boot with commit aeffc4928e,
but it's a real bug, so revert the offending commit.
Reported-by: Linn Crosetto <linn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438936621-5215-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes in this cycle are:
- arm64 efi stub fixes, preservation of FP/SIMD registers across
firmware calls, and conversion of the EFI stub code into a static
library - Ard Biesheuvel
- Xen EFI support - Daniel Kiper
- Support for autoloading the efivars driver - Lee, Chun-Yi
- Use the PE/COFF headers in the x86 EFI boot stub to request that
the stub be loaded with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN alignment - Michael
Brown
- Consolidate all the x86 EFI quirks into one file - Saurabh Tangri
- Additional error logging in x86 EFI boot stub - Ulf Winkelvos
- Support loading initrd above 4G in EFI boot stub - Yinghai Lu
- EFI reboot patches for ACPI hardware reduced platforms"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
efi/arm64: Handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table
arch/x86/xen: Silence compiler warnings
xen: Silence compiler warnings
x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers
x86/efi: Add better error logging to EFI boot stub
efi: Autoload efivars
efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars
arch/x86: Remove efi_set_rtc_mmss()
arch/x86: Replace plain strings with constants
xen: Put EFI machinery in place
xen: Define EFI related stuff
arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_MEMMAP) call
arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES) call
efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag
arch/x86: Do not access EFI memory map if it is not available
efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*()
arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap()
x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI
efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem()
...
The EFI boot stub goes to great pains to relocate the kernel image to
an appropriately aligned address, as indicated by the ->kernel_alignment
field in the bzImage header. However, for the PE stub entry case, we
can request that the EFI PE/COFF loader do the work for us.
Fix by exposing the desired alignment via the SectionAlignment field
in the PE/COFF headers. Despite its name, this field provides an
overall alignment requirement for the loaded file. (Naturally, the
FileAlignment field describes the alignment for individual sections.)
There is no way in the PE/COFF headers to express the concept of
min_alignment; we therefore do not expose the minimum (as opposed to
preferred) alignment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data
portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the
uninitialised-data portions. Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end
up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results.
Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally
equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
commit 7d453eee36 ("x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED") introduced a
regression for the functionality to load kernels above 4G. The relevant
(incorrect) reasoning behind this change can be seen in the commit
message,
"The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect
that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of
XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y.
XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is
guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits."
This is obviously bogus since 32-bit EFI loaders will never place the
kernel above the 4G mark. So this restriction is entirely unnecessary.
But things are worse than that - since we want to encourage people to
always compile with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y so that their kernels work out of
the box for both 32-bit and 64-bit firmware, commit 7d453eee36
effectively disables XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G completely.
Remove the overzealous and superfluous restriction and restore the
XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G functionality.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402140380-15377-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes:
- Add debug code to the dump EFI pagetable - Borislav Petkov
- Make 1:1 runtime mapping robust when booting on machines with lots
of memory - Borislav Petkov
- Move the EFI facilities bits out of 'x86_efi_facility' and into
efi.flags which is the standard architecture independent place to
keep EFI state, by Matt Fleming.
- Add 'EFI mixed mode' support: this allows 64-bit kernels to be
booted from 32-bit firmware. This needs a bootloader that supports
the 'EFI handover protocol'. By Matt Fleming"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
x86, efi: Abstract x86 efi_early calls
x86/efi: Restore 'attr' argument to query_variable_info()
x86/efi: Rip out phys_efi_get_time()
x86/efi: Preserve segment registers in mixed mode
x86/boot: Fix non-EFI build
x86, tools: Fix up compiler warnings
x86/efi: Re-disable interrupts after calling firmware services
x86/boot: Don't overwrite cr4 when enabling PAE
x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
x86/efi: Add mixed runtime services support
x86/efi: Firmware agnostic handover entry points
x86/efi: Split the boot stub into 32/64 code paths
x86/efi: Add early thunk code to go from 64-bit to 32-bit
x86/efi: Build our own EFI services pointer table
efi: Add separate 32-bit/64-bit definitions
x86/efi: Delete dead code when checking for non-native
x86/mm/pageattr: Always dump the right page table in an oops
x86, tools: Consolidate #ifdef code
x86/boot: Cleanup header.S by removing some #ifdefs
efi: Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer
...
Add the Kconfig option and bump the kernel header version so that boot
loaders can check whether the handover code is available if they want.
The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect
that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of
XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y.
XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is
guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits.
Note that no boot loaders should be using the bits set in xloadflags to
decide which entry point to jump to. The entire scheme is based on the
concept that 32-bit bootloaders always jump to ->handover_offset and
64-bit loaders always jump to ->handover_offset + 512. We set both bits
merely to inform the boot loader that it's safe to use the native
handover offset even if the machine type in the PE/COFF header claims
otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
handover_offset is now filled out by build.c. Don't set a default value
as it will be overwritten anyway.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>