linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 13/24] x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging related constants

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Message-ID: <20250709080840.2233208-39-ardb+git@google.com>
Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2025 10:08:54 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@...gle.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, 
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, 
	Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@...gle.com>, Kevin Loughlin <kevinloughlin@...gle.com>, 
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 13/24] x86/boot: Provide PIC aliases for 5-level paging
 related constants

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>

Provide PIC aliases for the global variables related to 5-level paging,
so that the startup code can access them in order to populate the kernel
page tables.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 533fcf5636fc..1bc40d0785ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -52,10 +52,13 @@ SYM_PIC_ALIAS(next_early_pgt);
 pmdval_t early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_NX);
 
 unsigned int __pgtable_l5_enabled __ro_after_init;
+SYM_PIC_ALIAS(__pgtable_l5_enabled);
 unsigned int pgdir_shift __ro_after_init = 39;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgdir_shift);
+SYM_PIC_ALIAS(pgdir_shift);
 unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d __ro_after_init = 1;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptrs_per_p4d);
+SYM_PIC_ALIAS(ptrs_per_p4d);
 
 unsigned long page_offset_base __ro_after_init = __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE_L4;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offset_base);
-- 
2.50.0.727.gbf7dc18ff4-goog