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commit 24388292e2d7fae79a0d4183cc91716b851299cf upstream. It is no longer necessary to be cautious when referring to global variables in the position independent decompressor code, now that it is built using PIE codegen and makes an assertion in the linker script that no GOT entries exist (which would require adjustment for the actual runtime load address of the decompressor binary). This means global variables can be referenced directly from C code, instead of having to pass their runtime addresses into C routines from asm code, which needs to happen at each call site. Do so for the code that will be called directly from the EFI stub after a subsequent patch, and avoid the need to duplicate this logic a third time. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-20-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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.