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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/efi-stub.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 12 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt index 7747024d3bb7..e15746988261 100644 --- a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ arch/x86/boot/header.S and arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c, respectively. For ARM the EFI stub is implemented in arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S and arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-stub.c. EFI stub code that is shared -between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c. +between architectures is in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub. For arm64, there is no compressed kernel support, so the Image itself masquerades as a PE/COFF image and the EFI stub is linked into the kernel. The arm64 EFI stub lives in arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S -and arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c. +and drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c. By using the EFI boot stub it's possible to boot a Linux kernel without the use of a conventional EFI boot loader, such as grub or diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index 05712ac83e38..c518dce7da4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000 (=44 bits) kasan shadow memory (16TB) ... unused hole ... ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks ... unused hole ... +ffffffef00000000 - ffffffff00000000 (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space +... unused hole ... ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls @@ -32,11 +34,9 @@ reference. Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space, but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. -->trampoline_pgd: - -We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual -range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed) - -0xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000 +We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual +memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed). +The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available +during EFI runtime calls. -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |