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    s390/boot: move dma sections from decompressor to decompressed kernel · 6bda6670
    Alexander Egorenkov authored
    This change simplifies the task of making the decompressor relocatable.
    
    The decompressor's image contains special DMA sections between _sdma and
    _edma. This DMA segment is loaded at boot as part of the decompressor and
    then simply handed over to the decompressed kernel. The decompressor itself
    never uses it in any way. The primary reason for this is the need to keep
    the aforementioned DMA segment below 2GB which is required by architecture,
    and because the decompressor is always loaded at a fixed low physical
    address, it is guaranteed that the DMA region will not cross the 2GB
    memory limit. If the DMA region had been placed in the decompressed kernel,
    then KASLR would make this guarantee impossible to fulfill or it would
    be restricted to the first 2GB of memory address space.
    
    This commit moves all DMA sections between _sdma and _edma from
    the decompressor's image to the decompressed kernel's image. The complete
    DMA region is placed in the init section of the decompressed kernel and
    immediately relocated below 2GB at start-up before it is needed by other
    parts of the decompressed kernel. The relocation of the DMA region happens
    even if the decompressed kernel is already located below 2GB in order
    to keep the first implementation simple. The relocation should not have
    any noticeable impact on boot time because the DMA segment is only a couple
    of pages.
    
    After relocating the DMA sections, the kernel has to fix all references
    which point into it. In order to automate this, place all variables
    pointing into the DMA sections in a special .dma.refs section. All such
    variables must be defined using the new __dma_ref macro. Only variables
    containing addresses within the DMA sections must be placed in the new
    .dma.refs section.
    
    Furthermore, move the initialization of control registers from
    the decompressor to the decompressed kernel because some control registers
    reference tables that must be placed in the DMA data section to
    guarantee that their addresses are below 2G. Because the decompressed
    kernel relocates the DMA sections at startup, the content of control
    registers CR2, CR5 and CR15 must be updated with new addresses after
    the relocation. The decompressed kernel initializes all control registers
    early at boot and then updates the content of CR2, CR5 and CR15
    as soon as the DMA relocation has occurred. This practically reverts
    the commit a80313ff ("s390/kernel: introduce .dma sections").
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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