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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2021-06-03 09:50:16 +0100
committerRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2021-06-13 18:16:40 +0100
commitb78f63f4439bbfd02bfc628114ed0f63460e5570 (patch)
treef78e13f3faf09f44c6a35c76925854e18344898e /arch
parentARM: 9087/1: kprobes: test-thumb: fix for LLVM_IAS=1 (diff)
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ARM: 9088/1: Split KERNEL_OFFSET from PAGE_OFFSET
We want to be able to compile the kernel into an address different from PAGE_OFFSET (start of lowmem) + TEXT_OFFSET, so start to pry apart the address of where the kernel is located from the address where the lowmem is located by defining and using KERNEL_OFFSET in a few key places. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h8
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/head.S3
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S2
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
index a711322d9f40..a5f1d1826a98 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -20,8 +20,14 @@
#endif
#include <asm/kasan_def.h>
-/* PAGE_OFFSET - the virtual address of the start of the kernel image */
+/*
+ * PAGE_OFFSET: the virtual address of the start of lowmem, memory above
+ * the virtual address range for userspace.
+ * KERNEL_OFFSET: the virtual address of the start of the kernel image.
+ * we may further offset this with TEXT_OFFSET in practice.
+ */
#define PAGE_OFFSET UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET)
+#define KERNEL_OFFSET (PAGE_OFFSET)
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index 7f62c5eccdf3..4e2daaa7636a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LL) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING)
#include CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
#endif
-
/*
* swapper_pg_dir is the virtual address of the initial page table.
* We place the page tables 16K below KERNEL_RAM_VADDR. Therefore, we must
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@
* the least significant 16 bits to be 0x8000, but we could probably
* relax this restriction to KERNEL_RAM_VADDR >= PAGE_OFFSET + 0x4000.
*/
-#define KERNEL_RAM_VADDR (PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET)
+#define KERNEL_RAM_VADDR (KERNEL_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET)
#if (KERNEL_RAM_VADDR & 0xffff) != 0x8000
#error KERNEL_RAM_VADDR must start at 0xXXXX8000
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index f7f4620d59c3..20c4f6d20c7a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ SECTIONS
#endif
}
- . = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
+ . = KERNEL_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
.head.text : {
_text = .;
HEAD_TEXT