mainlining shenanigans
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EFI's SetVirtualAddressMap() runtime service is a horrid hack that we'd like to avoid using, if possible. For 64-bit architectures such as arm64, the user and kernel mappings are entirely disjoint, and given that we use the user region for mapping the UEFI runtime regions when running under the OS, we don't rely on SetVirtualAddressMap() in the conventional way, i.e., to permit kernel mappings of the OS to coexist with kernel region mappings of the firmware regions. This means that, in principle, we should be able to avoid SetVirtualAddressMap() altogether, and simply use the 1:1 mapping that UEFI uses at boot time. (Note that omitting SetVirtualAddressMap() is explicitly permitted by the UEFI spec). However, there is a corner case on arm64, which, if configured for 3-level paging (or 2-level paging when using 64k pages), may not be able to cover the entire range of firmware mappings (which might contain both memory and MMIO peripheral mappings). So let's avoid SetVirtualAddressMap() on arm64, but only if the VA space is guaranteed to be of sufficient size. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
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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.
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.