kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt, branch master

Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST

2019-05-08T20:34:10+00:00

This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/x86: Fix typo in zero-page.txt

2018-11-05T06:05:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f259b21b-1f2b-f215-00d2-23388bed2530@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'linus' into WIP.x86/boot, to fix up conflicts and to pick up updates

2017-03-01T08:02:26+00:00

Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

efi: Get and store the secure boot status

2017-02-07T09:42:10+00:00

Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash it somewhere that the main kernel image can find. The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a) generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode. For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot loader or kexec. This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new kernel. Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org [ Small readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/boot/e820: Rename everything to e820_table

2017-01-28T08:33:16+00:00

No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Huang, Ying Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Jackson Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/boot/e820: Rename 'e820_map' variables to 'e820_array'

2017-01-28T08:33:15+00:00

In line with the rename to 'struct e820_array', harmonize the naming of common e820 table variable names as well: e820 => e820_array e820_saved => e820_array_saved e820_map => e820_array initial_e820 => e820_array_init This makes the variable names more consistent and easier to grep for. No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Huang, Ying Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Jackson Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/boot/e820: Rename the basic e820 data types to 'struct e820_entry' and 'struct e820_array'

2017-01-28T08:33:14+00:00

The 'e820entry' and 'e820map' names have various annoyances: - the missing underscore departs from the usual kernel style and makes the code look weird, - in the past I kept confusing the 'map' with the 'entry', because a 'map' is ambiguous in that regard, - it's not really clear from the 'e820map' that this is a regular C array. Rename them to 'struct e820_entry' and 'struct e820_array' accordingly. ( Leave the legacy UAPI header alone but do the rename in the bootparam.h and e820/types.h file - outside tools relying on these defines should either adjust their code, or should use the legacy header, or should create their private copies for the definitions. ) No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Huang, Ying Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Jackson Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table

2015-07-21T08:55:11+00:00

The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining of MCA logic. bloat-o-meter output: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55) function old new delta i386_start_kernel 128 119 -9 setup_arch 1421 1375 -46 Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt

2015-02-18T22:04:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov Cc: Martin Mares Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422689004-13318-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol

2013-01-27T23:56:37+00:00

Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to live above the 4 GiB mark. The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points are supported. Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness at least until the issue can be researched further. This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse. Originally-by: Yinghai Lu Originally-by: David Woodhouse Acked-by: Yinghai Lu Acked-by: David Woodhouse Acked-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Gokul Caushik Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Joe Millenbach