Commit 5ceeee75 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Dave Hansen

x86/mm: Add a few comments

It's a shame to hide useful comments in Changelogs, add some to the
code.

Shamelessly stolen from commit:

  c40a56a7 ("x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias mapping")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221110125544.460677011%40infradead.org
parent 80d0969a
......@@ -219,6 +219,23 @@ within_inclusive(unsigned long addr, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
* The kernel image is mapped into two places in the virtual address space
* (addresses without KASLR, of course):
*
* 1. The kernel direct map (0xffff880000000000)
* 2. The "high kernel map" (0xffffffff81000000)
*
* We actually execute out of #2. If we get the address of a kernel symbol, it
* points to #2, but almost all physical-to-virtual translations point to #1.
*
* This is so that we can have both a directmap of all physical memory *and*
* take full advantage of the the limited (s32) immediate addressing range (2G)
* of x86_64.
*
* See Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst for more detail.
*/
static inline unsigned long highmap_start_pfn(void)
{
return __pa_symbol(_text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
......@@ -1626,6 +1643,9 @@ static int __change_page_attr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int primary)
static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias);
/*
* Check the directmap and "high kernel map" 'aliases'.
*/
static int cpa_process_alias(struct cpa_data *cpa)
{
struct cpa_data alias_cpa;
......
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