[PATCH 09/15] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Sat Oct 10 10:22:03 PDT 2015
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:41:18PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>
> This patch adds the page size to the arm64 kernel image header
> so that one can infer the PAGESIZE used by the kernel. This will
> be helpful to diagnose failures to boot the kernel with page size
> not supported by the CPU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 7 ++++++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
> index 7d9d3c2..aaf6d77 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
> @@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ Header notes:
> - The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field
> composed as follows:
> Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
> - Bits 1-63: Reserved.
> + Bit 1-2: Kernel Page size.
> + 0 - Unspecified.
> + 1 - 4K
> + 2 - 16K
> + 3 - 64K
> + Bits 3-63: Reserved.
>
> - When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
> memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
> index 8fae075..73b736c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
> #define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 0
> #endif
>
> -#define __HEAD_FLAGS (__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0)
> +#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE ((PAGE_SHIFT - 10) / 2)
> +
> +#define __HEAD_FLAGS (__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) | \
> + (__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1)
>
> /*
> * These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
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