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Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:17:42 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Sai Praneeth <tipbot@...or.com>@zytor.com
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Subject: [tip:efi/core] x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode

Commit-ID:  2ad510dc372c2caac9aada9ff6dd10e787616e1d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2ad510dc372c2caac9aada9ff6dd10e787616e1d
Author:     Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:36:06 +0000
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:26:28 +0100

x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode

The correct symbol to use when figuring out the size of the kernel
text is '_etext', not '_end' which is the symbol for the entire kernel
image includes data and debug sections.

Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@...el.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455712566-16727-14-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index 40d2f44..49e4dd4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ int __init efi_setup_page_tables(unsigned long pa_memmap, unsigned num_pages)
 	efi_scratch.phys_stack = virt_to_phys(page_address(page));
 	efi_scratch.phys_stack += PAGE_SIZE; /* stack grows down */
 
-	npages = (_end - _text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	npages = (_etext - _text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	text = __pa(_text);
 	pfn = text >> PAGE_SHIFT;