linux/arch
Matt Fleming 745c51673e x86/boot: EFI_MIXED should not prohibit loading above 4G
commit 7d453eee36 ("x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED") introduced a
regression for the functionality to load kernels above 4G. The relevant
(incorrect) reasoning behind this change can be seen in the commit
message,

  "The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect
  that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of
  XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y.
  XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is
  guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits."

This is obviously bogus since 32-bit EFI loaders will never place the
kernel above the 4G mark. So this restriction is entirely unnecessary.

But things are worse than that - since we want to encourage people to
always compile with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y so that their kernels work out of
the box for both 32-bit and 64-bit firmware, commit 7d453eee36
effectively disables XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G completely.

Remove the overzealous and superfluous restriction and restore the
XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G functionality.

Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402140380-15377-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-06-07 09:31:00 -07:00
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alpha Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
arc ARC: !PREEMPT: Ensure Return to kernel mode is IRQ safe 2014-04-30 08:21:43 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2014-05-29 18:31:09 -07:00
arm64 arm64: mm: fix pmd_write CoW brokenness 2014-05-29 11:31:14 +01:00
avr32 Char/Misc driver patches for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-01 16:13:21 -07:00
blackfin blackfin updates for Linux 3.15 2014-04-12 17:26:45 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 10:59:39 -07:00
cris Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
frv PCI changes for the v3.15 merge window: 2014-04-01 15:14:04 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Delete stale barrier.h 2014-05-01 10:09:47 -07:00
ia64 ia64: add renameat2 syscall 2014-05-20 10:59:38 +02:00
m32r Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
m68k m68k: add renameat2 syscall 2014-05-20 10:59:37 +02:00
metag metag: Remove _STK_LIM_MAX override 2014-05-15 00:30:32 +01:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-11 11:53:45 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2014-06-01 18:28:58 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
openrisc Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
parisc parisc: 'renameat2()' doesn't need (or have) a separate compat system call 2014-05-23 09:23:51 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2014-06-01 18:30:07 -07:00
s390 Small fixes for x86, slightly larger fixes for PPC, and a forgotten s390 patch. 2014-05-28 08:08:03 -07:00
score score: remove unused CPU_SCORE7 Kconfig parameter 2014-04-03 16:20:52 -07:00
sh mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts 2014-04-25 16:05:40 -07:00
sparc sparc64: fix format string mismatch in arch/sparc/kernel/sysfs.c 2014-05-21 12:54:42 -07:00
tile Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
um mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts 2014-04-25 16:05:40 -07:00
unicore32 Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
x86 x86/boot: EFI_MIXED should not prohibit loading above 4G 2014-06-07 09:31:00 -07:00
xtensa Xtensa patchset for v3.15. 2014-05-05 15:36:59 -07:00
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