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AKASHI Takahiro b799a09f63 kexec_file: make use of purgatory optional
Patch series "kexec_file, x86, powerpc: refactoring for other
architecutres", v2.

This is a preparatory patchset for adding kexec_file support on arm64.

It was originally included in a arm64 patch set[1], but Philipp is also
working on their kexec_file support on s390[2] and some changes are now
conflicting.

So these common parts were extracted and put into a separate patch set
for better integration.  What's more, my original patch#4 was split into
a few small chunks for easier review after Dave's comment.

As such, the resulting code is basically identical with my original, and
the only *visible* differences are:

 - renaming of _kexec_kernel_image_probe() and  _kimage_file_post_load_cleanup()

 - change one of types of arguments at prepare_elf64_headers()

Those, unfortunately, require a couple of trivial changes on the rest
(#1, #6 to #13) of my arm64 kexec_file patch set[1].

Patch #1 allows making a use of purgatory optional, particularly useful
for arm64.

Patch #2 commonalizes arch_kexec_kernel_{image_probe, image_load,
verify_sig}() and arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() across
architectures.

Patches #3-#7 are also intended to generalize parse_elf64_headers(),
along with exclude_mem_range(), to be made best re-use of.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-February/561182.html
[2] http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1802.1/02596.html

This patch (of 7):

On arm64, crash dump kernel's usable memory is protected by *unmapping*
it from kernel virtual space unlike other architectures where the region
is just made read-only.  It is highly unlikely that the region is
accidentally corrupted and this observation rationalizes that digest
check code can also be dropped from purgatory.  The resulting code is so
simple as it doesn't require a bit ugly re-linking/relocation stuff,
i.e.  arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add().

Please see:

   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-December/545428.html

All that the purgatory does is to shuffle arguments and jump into a new
kernel, while we still need to have some space for a hash value
(purgatory_sha256_digest) which is never checked against.

As such, it doesn't make sense to have trampline code between old kernel
and new kernel on arm64.

This patch introduces a new configuration, ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY, and
allows related code to be compiled in only if necessary.

[takahiro.akashi@linaro.org: fix trivial screwup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309093346.GF25863@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306102303.9063-2-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
arch kexec_file: make use of purgatory optional 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto MIPS changes for 4.17 2018-04-10 11:39:22 -07:00
Documentation We decided to request the latest three patches to be merged into this 2018-04-12 13:00:44 -07:00
drivers amdgpu, omap and snd regression fix 2018-04-12 20:56:10 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs proc: revalidate misc dentries 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
include Merge branch 'parisc-4.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2018-04-12 17:07:04 -07:00
init seq_file: allocate seq_file from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:36 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel kexec_file: make use of purgatory optional 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
lib We decided to request the latest three patches to be merged into this 2018-04-12 13:00:44 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm, slab: reschedule cache_reap() on the same CPU 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 4.17 2018-04-12 12:55:50 -07:00
samples remoteproc updates for v4.17 2018-04-10 12:09:27 -07:00
scripts asm-generic fixes for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 09:15:48 -07:00
security ipc/msg: introduce msgctl(MSG_STAT_ANY) 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
sound amdgpu, omap and snd regression fix 2018-04-12 20:56:10 -07:00
tools proc: fixup copyright sign 2018-04-12 20:52:25 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.17 2018-04-11 16:12:21 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.