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    x86/boot/compressed/64: Find a place for 32-bit trampoline · 3548e131
    Kirill A. Shutemov authored
    If a bootloader enables 64-bit mode with 4-level paging, we might need to
    switch over to 5-level paging. The switching requires the disabling of
    paging, which works fine if kernel itself is loaded below 4G.
    
    But if the bootloader puts the kernel above 4G (not sure if anybody does
    this), we would lose control as soon as paging is disabled, because the
    code becomes unreachable to the CPU.
    
    To handle the situation, we need a trampoline in lower memory that would
    take care of switching on 5-level paging.
    
    This patch finds a spot in low memory for a trampoline.
    
    The heuristic is based on code in reserve_bios_regions().
    
    We find the end of low memory based on BIOS and EBDA start addresses.
    The trampoline is put just before end of low memory. It's mimic approach
    taken to allocate memory for realtime trampoline.
    Tested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
    Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
    Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226180451.86788-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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