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authorAndy Shevchenko <[email protected]>2024-11-25 10:49:14 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2024-11-25 20:40:56 +0000
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x86/Documentation: Update algo in init_size description of boot protocol
The init_size description of boot protocol has an example of the runtime start address for the compressed bzImage. For non-relocatable kernel it relies on the pref_address value (if not 0), but for relocatable case only pays respect to the load_addres and kernel_alignment, and it is inaccurate for the latter. Boot loader must consider the pref_address as the Linux kernel relocates to it before being decompressed as nicely described in this commit message a year ago: 43b1d3e68ee7 ("kexec: Allocate kernel above bzImage's pref_address") Due to this documentation inaccuracy some of the bootloaders (*) made a mistake in the calculations and if kernel image is big enough, this may lead to unbootable configurations. *) In particular, kexec-tools missed that and resently got a couple of changes which will be part of v2.0.30 release. For the record, commit 43b1d3e68ee7 only fixed the kernel kexec implementation and also missed to update the init_size description. While at it, make an example C-like looking as it's done elsewhere in the document and fix indentation as presribed by the reStructuredText specifications, so the syntax highliting will work properly. Fixes: 43b1d3e68ee7 ("kexec: Allocate kernel above bzImage's pref_address") Fixes: d297366ba692 ("x86: document new bzImage fields") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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