linux/arch/x86_64
Siddha, Suresh B f6c2e3330d [PATCH] x86_64: Unmap NULL during early bootup
We should zap the low mappings, as soon as possible, so that we can catch
kernel bugs more effectively. Previously early boot had NULL mapped
and didn't trap on NULL references.

This patch introduces boot_level4_pgt, which will always have low identity
addresses mapped.  Druing boot, all the processors will use this as their
level4 pgt.  On BP, we will switch to init_level4_pgt as soon as we enter C
code and zap the low mappings as soon as we are done with the usage of
identity low mapped addresses.  On AP's we will zap the low mappings as
soon as we jump to C code.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
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boot [PATCH] x86-64: Fix gcc 4 warnings about pointer signedness 2005-09-12 10:50:56 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] x86_64: add MODULE_ALIAS for aes 2005-08-08 15:29:13 -07:00
ia32 [PATCH] Remove orphaned TIOCGDEV compat ioctl 2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] x86_64: Unmap NULL during early bootup 2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
lib [PATCH] x86-64: bitops fix for -Os 2005-11-02 19:41:32 -08:00
mm [PATCH] x86_64: Unmap NULL during early bootup 2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
oprofile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
pci [PATCH] x86-64: Use ACPI PXM to parse PCI<->node assignments 2005-09-12 10:49:57 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig 2005-11-14 19:55:12 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] x86_64: Support for AMD specific MCE Threshold. 2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: alpha,x86_64 use generic asm-offsets.h support 2005-09-09 21:28:48 +02:00