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author | Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> | 2016-04-18 17:09:46 +0200 |
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committer | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2016-04-26 12:23:25 +0100 |
commit | 18b9c0d641938242d8bcdba3c14a8f2beec2a97e (patch) | |
tree | 00da292aa1af671638290dba1b0ce78cbda5e982 /arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | |
parent | b03cc885328e3c0de61843737d42eb0a0f112aab (diff) | |
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arm64: don't map TEXT_OFFSET bytes below the kernel if we can avoid it
For historical reasons, the kernel Image must be loaded into physical
memory at a 512 KB offset above a 2 MB aligned base address. The region
between the base address and the start of the kernel Image has no
significance to the kernel itself, but it is currently mapped explicitly
into the early kernel VMA range for all translation granules.
In some cases (i.e., 4 KB granule), this is unavoidable, due to the 2 MB
granularity of the early kernel mappings. However, in other cases, e.g.,
when running with larger page sizes, or in the future, with more granular
KASLR, there is no reason to map it explicitly like we do currently.
So update the logic so that the region is mapped only if that happens as
a side effect of rounding the start address of the kernel to swapper block
size, and leave it unmapped otherwise.
Since the symbol kernel_img_size now simply resolves to the memory
footprint of the kernel Image, we can drop its definition from image.h
and opencode its calculation.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/image.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h index 4fd72da646a3..86d444f9c2c1 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h @@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_offset_le, TEXT_OFFSET); \ DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_flags_le, __HEAD_FLAGS); -kernel_img_size = _end - (_text - TEXT_OFFSET); - #ifdef CONFIG_EFI __efistub_stext_offset = stext - _text; |