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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 09/27] x86/acpi: Adapt assembly for PIE support



On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:03 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed 2018-05-23 12:54:03, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for
the
> > kernel to be PIE compatible.
> >
> > Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the
> > KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.

> What testing did this get?

Tested boot, hibernation and performance on qemu and dedicated machine.


> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> > index 50b8ed0317a3..472659c0f811 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> >        * Hooray, we are in Long 64-bit mode (but still running in low
memory)
> >        */
> >  ENTRY(wakeup_long64)
> > -     movq    saved_magic, %rax
> > +     movq    saved_magic(%rip), %rax
> >       movq    $0x123456789abcdef0, %rdx
> >       cmpq    %rdx, %rax
> >       jne     bogus_64_magic

> Because, as comment says, this is rather tricky code.

I agree, I think maintainers feedback is very important for this patchset.


Pavel

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-- 
Thomas

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