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s390/boot: move dma sections from decompressor to decompressed kernel
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:Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: