Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] x86/purgatory: Simplify stack handling

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 05:53:12PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> 
> The x86 purgatory, which does little more than verify a SHA-256 hash of
> the loaded segments, currently uses three different stacks:
> - one in .bss that is used to call the purgatory C code
> - one in .rodata that is only used to switch to an updated code segment
>   descriptor in the GDT
> - one in .data, which allows it to be prepopulated from the kexec loader
>   in theory, but this is not actually being taken advantage of.
> 
> Simplify this, by dropping the latter two stacks, as well as the loader
> logic that programs RSP.
> 
> Both the stacks in .bss and .data are 4k aligned, but 16 byte alignment
> is more than sufficient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h      |  1 -
>  arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c |  8 --------
>  arch/x86/purgatory/entry64.S      |  8 --------
>  arch/x86/purgatory/setup-x86_64.S |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/purgatory/stack.S        | 18 ------------------

This needs a small fix up to build.

  make[6]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/x86/purgatory/stack.o', needed by 'arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro'.

diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
index acc09799af2a..2b6b2fb033d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y
 
-purgatory-y := purgatory.o stack.o setup-x86_$(BITS).o sha256.o entry64.o string.o
+purgatory-y := purgatory.o setup-x86_$(BITS).o sha256.o entry64.o string.o
 
 targets += $(purgatory-y)
 PURGATORY_OBJS = $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(purgatory-y))

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