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[PATCH] x86-64: build-time checking
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:08 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:08 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
commit6a50a664ca0cfd2a487525f10cec3ff4d570b5e8
treecf68fae284a7b44df616a8112e9088557ad31d76
parent1ab60e0f72f71ec54831e525a3e1154f1c092408
[PATCH] x86-64: build-time checking

o X86_64 kernel should run from 2MB aligned address for two reasons.
- Performance.
- For relocatable kernels, page tables are updated based on difference
  between compile time address and load time physical address.
  This difference should be multiple of 2MB as kernel text and data
  is mapped using 2MB pages and PMD should be pointing to a 2MB
  aligned address. Life is simpler if both compile time and load time
  kernel addresses are 2MB aligned.

o Flag the error at compile time if one is trying to build a kernel which
  does not meet alignment restrictions.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c
include/asm-x86_64/page.h