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Commit b3c72fc9 authored by Daniel Kiper's avatar Daniel Kiper Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect



The setup_data is a bit awkward to use for extremely large data objects,
both because the setup_data header has to be adjacent to the data object
and because it has a 32-bit length field. However, it is important that
intermediate stages of the boot process have a way to identify which
chunks of memory are occupied by kernel data. Thus introduce an uniform
way to specify such indirect data as setup_indirect struct and
SETUP_INDIRECT type.

And finally bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S.

Suggested-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoss Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
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