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* [RFC] x86: Unify allocation of low memory trampolines
@ 2011-02-18  4:56 H. Peter Anvin
  2011-02-18  5:19 ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2011-02-18  4:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki, Matthieu Castet, Stephen Rothwell

This patchset unifies all the allocation of low memory (a.k.a. realmode
memory, low megabyte) code (currently there are three users of low
memory: BIOS reboot, suspend, and of course the SMP trampoline -- there
is at least one additional one coming down the pipe in the near term)
and reserves and installs them as a single memory object very early
during initialization.  This means the original can be put in initrodata
and discarded after the allocation is done.

I consider this patchset to be a first step: the next step is to
actually link all the realmode code together into a single common
address space before encapsulation.  This will enable X/W separation as
well as provide an even more natural way to access symbols in the real
mode object.

	-hpa

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2011-02-18  4:56 [RFC] x86: Unify allocation of low memory trampolines H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-18  5:19 ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-18 12:16   ` Brian Gerst
2011-02-19  1:25     ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86-64, trampoline: Remove unused variable tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-23 19:05   ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines Tony Luck
2011-08-23 19:12     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-23 20:26       ` [PATCH] x86: remove some noise from boot log when starting cpus Luck, Tony
2012-02-20 16:08         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-02-22 10:33           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-22 10:57             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-02-22 11:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-22 18:06                 ` [PATCH/resubmit] x86: Remove " Luck, Tony
2012-02-22 18:25                   ` [tip:x86/cpu] " tip-bot for Luck, Tony
2012-02-22 20:34                   ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/debug: Remove ancient debugging " tip-bot for Luck, Tony
2011-02-18  5:19 ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, trampoline: Use the unified trampoline setup for ACPI wakeup tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-09 22:41   ` matthieu castet
2011-03-10  0:07     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-18  5:19 ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86: Make the GDT_ENTRY() macro in <asm/segment.h> safe for assembly tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-18  5:20 ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-18 12:31   ` Brian Gerst
2011-02-18 17:42     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-19  1:25     ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, reboot: Fix the use of passed arguments in 32-bit BIOS reboot tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-29 15:16   ` [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file Alexey Zaytsev
2011-04-29 16:09     ` H. Peter Anvin

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