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This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel and sv48 support. The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address therefore we could use the linear mapping for the kernel mapping. But the relocated kernel base address will be different from PAGE_OFFSET and since in the linear mapping, two different virtual addresses cannot point to the same physical address, the kernel mapping needs to lie outside the linear mapping so that we don't have to copy it at the same physical offset. The kernel mapping is moved to the last 2GB of the address space, BPF is now always after the kernel and modules use the 2GB memory range right before the kernel, so BPF and modules regions do not overlap. KASLR implementation will simply have to move the kernel in the last 2GB range and just take care of leaving enough space for BPF. In addition, by moving the kernel to the end of the address space, both sv39 and sv48 kernels will be exactly the same without needing to be relocated at runtime. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> [Palmer: Squash the STRICT_RWX fix, and a !MMU fix] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Linux kernel
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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.