linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 19/27] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:02:13 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 19/27] x86, boot: update comments about entries for 64bit image

Now 64bit entry is fixed on 0x200, can not be changed anymore.

Update the comments to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index 5c80b94..5ba0c95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
 	__HEAD
 	.code32
 ENTRY(startup_32)
+	/*
+	 * 32bit entry is 0, could not be changed!
+	 * If we come here directly from a bootloader,
+	 * kernel(text+data+bss+brk) ramdisk, zero_page, command line
+	 * all need to be under 4G limit.
+	 */
 	cld
 	/*
 	 * Test KEEP_SEGMENTS flag to see if the bootloader is asking
@@ -182,20 +188,18 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
 	lret
 ENDPROC(startup_32)
 
-	/*
-	 * Be careful here startup_64 needs to be at a predictable
-	 * address so I can export it in an ELF header.  Bootloaders
-	 * should look at the ELF header to find this address, as
-	 * it may change in the future.
-	 */
 	.code64
 	.org 0x200
 ENTRY(startup_64)
 	/*
+	 * 64bit entry is 0x200, could not be changed!
 	 * We come here either from startup_32 or directly from a
-	 * 64bit bootloader.  If we come here from a bootloader we depend on
-	 * an identity mapped page table being provied that maps our
-	 * entire text+data+bss and hopefully all of memory.
+	 * 64bit bootloader.
+	 * If we come here from a bootloader, kernel(text+data+bss+brk),
+	 * ramdisk, zero_page, command line could be above 4G.
+	 * We depend on an identity mapped page table being provided
+	 * that maps our entire kernel(text+data+bss+brk), and hopefully
+	 * all of memory.
 	 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
 	/*
-- 
1.7.10.4

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