Commit 9de49990 authored by Joerg Roedel's avatar Joerg Roedel Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/realmode: Add comment for Global bit usage in trampoline_pgd

Document the fact that using the trampoline_pgd will result in the
creation of global TLB entries in the user range of the address
space.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202153226.22946-2-joro@8bytes.org
parent e1cd82a3
......@@ -714,6 +714,11 @@ static void __init memory_map_bottom_up(unsigned long map_start,
static void __init init_trampoline(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
* The code below will alias kernel page-tables in the user-range of the
* address space, including the Global bit. So global TLB entries will
* be created when using the trampoline page-table.
*/
if (!kaslr_memory_enabled())
trampoline_pgd_entry = init_top_pgt[pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET)];
else
......
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