linux/Documentation
Juergen Gross ae7e1238e6 x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header
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>
2018-10-10 10:44:22 +02:00
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ABI xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages 2018-09-14 08:51:10 -04:00
accelerators
accounting
acpi ACPI: property: graph: Update graph documentation to use generic references 2018-07-23 12:44:52 +02:00
admin-guide xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages 2018-09-14 08:51:10 -04:00
aoe
arm
arm64 Documentation/arm64/sve: Couple of improvements and typos 2018-08-29 11:33:19 +01:00
auxdisplay
backlight
block block: Track DISCARD statistics and output them in stat and diskstat 2018-07-18 08:44:22 -06:00
blockdev
bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-08-07 11:02:05 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1
cma
connector
console Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt 2018-08-10 16:09:40 -06:00
core-api docs/core-api: mm-api: add section about GFP flags 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
cpu-freq
cpuidle
crypto crypto: remove redundant type flags from tfm allocation 2018-07-09 00:30:29 +08:00
dev-tools doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests 2018-06-29 09:01:50 -06:00
device-mapper dm raid: bump target version, update comments and documentation 2018-09-06 17:07:58 -04:00
devicetree Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-09-28 18:04:50 -07:00
doc-guide Documentation/sphinx: allow "functions" with no parameters 2018-06-30 07:52:42 -06:00
driver-api docs: fpga: document fpga manager flags 2018-09-30 08:49:55 -07:00
driver-model dmaengine: add a new helper dmaenginem_async_device_register 2018-07-30 10:50:22 +05:30
early-userspace initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
EDID
extcon
fault-injection
fb uvesafb: Fix URLs in the documentation 2018-09-26 18:11:23 +02:00
features ARM: 8777/1: Hook up SYNC_CORE functionality for sys_membarrier() 2018-07-11 11:02:08 +01:00
filesystems vfs: add the fadvise() file operation 2018-08-30 17:08:35 +02:00
firmware_class
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fpga docs: fpga: add a document for FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Framework Overview 2018-07-15 13:55:44 +02:00
gpio
gpu drm/msm/gpu: Add the buffer objects from the submit to the crash dump 2018-07-30 08:50:10 -04:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (ina2xx) fix sysfs shunt resistor read access 2018-08-26 17:45:25 -07:00
i2c i2c: refactor function to release a DMA safe buffer 2018-08-30 23:13:15 +02:00
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input input: add MT_TOOL_DIAL 2018-07-17 15:33:47 +02:00
ioctl Char/Misc driver patches for 4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 11:04:51 -07:00
isdn
kbuild kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt 2018-08-22 23:21:42 +09:00
kdump
kernel-hacking doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking 2018-07-26 16:21:09 -06:00
laptops
leds
lightnvm
livepatch
locking locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes 2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
m68k
maintainer
md
media media: video_function_calls.rst: drop obsolete video-set-attributes reference 2018-08-29 13:24:30 -04:00
memory-devices
mic
mips
misc-devices pci_endpoint_test: Add 2 ioctl commands 2018-07-19 11:46:57 +01:00
mmc
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking net-tcp: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval is a u32 not int 2018-09-26 20:33:21 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem
openrisc
parisc
PCI Merge branch 'remotes/lorenzo/pci/dwc' 2018-08-15 14:59:11 -05:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
perf
phy
platform
power PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
powerpc powerpc: Document issues with TM on POWER9 2018-07-02 23:54:29 +10:00
pps
process Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it. 2018-09-16 11:42:28 -07:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
RCU rculist: Improve documentation for list_for_each_entry_from_rcu() 2018-07-12 15:39:25 -07:00
riscv
s390
scheduler
scsi scsi: documentation: add scsi_mod.use_blk_mq to scsi-parameters 2018-08-27 12:26:10 -04:00
security
serial
sh
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.19 2018-08-13 12:12:31 +02:00
sparc
sphinx Documentation/sphinx: allow "functions" with no parameters 2018-06-30 07:52:42 -06:00
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
target
thermal
timers timekeeping.txt: Correct maxCount of n-bit binary counter 2018-07-23 09:33:06 -06:00
trace This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of 2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
translations This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of 2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
usb USB-serial updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-07-20 21:47:15 +02:00
userspace-api
virtual KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO 2018-09-20 00:51:46 +02:00
vm
w1 w1: fix w1_ds2438 documentation 2018-07-07 17:27:13 +02:00
watchdog
wimax
x86 x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header 2018-10-10 10:44:22 +02:00
xtensa
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