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The native 32-bit or 64-bit EFI handover protocol entrypoint offset relative to the respective startup_32/64 address is described in boot_params as handover_offset, so that the special Linux/x86 aware EFI loader can find it there. When mixed mode is enabled, this single field has to describe this offset for both the 32-bit and 64-bit entrypoints, so their respective relative offsets have to be identical. Given that startup_32 and startup_64 are 0x200 bytes apart, and the EFI handover entrypoint resides at a fixed offset, the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of those entrypoints must be exactly 0x200 bytes apart as well. Currently, hard-coded fixed offsets are used to ensure this, but it is sufficient to emit the 64-bit entrypoint 0x200 bytes after the 32-bit one, wherever it happens to reside. This allows this code (which is now EFI mixed mode specific) to be moved into efi_mixed.S and out of the startup code in head_64.S. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-6-ardb@kernel.org
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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