forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
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The kernel decompressor has to know several bits of information about uncompressed image. Currently this info is collected by running "nm" on uncompressed vmlinux + "sed" and producing sizes.h file. This method worked well, but it has several disadvantages. Obscure symbols name pattern matching is fragile. Adding new values makes pattern even longer. Logic is spread across code and make file. Limited ability to adjust symbols values (currently magic lma value of 0x100000 is always subtracted). Apart from that same pieces of information (and more) would be needed for early memory detection and features like KASLR outside of boot/compressed/ folder where sizes.h is generated. To overcome limitations new "struct vmlinux_info" has been introduced to include values needed for the decompressor and the rest of the boot code. The only static instance of vmlinux_info is produced during vmlinux link step by filling in struct fields by the linker (like it is done with input_data in boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr.lds.S). This way individual values could be adjusted with all the knowledge linker has and arithmetic it supports. Later .vmlinux.info section (which contains struct vmlinux_info) is transplanted into the decompressor image and dropped from uncompressed image altogether. While doing that replace "compressed/vmlinux.scr.lds.S" linker script (whose purpose is to rename .data section in piggy.o to .rodata.compressed) with plain objcopy command. And simplify decompressor's linker script. Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.