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author | Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> | 2016-05-07 11:59:40 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-05-10 10:12:02 +0200 |
commit | 36a39ac967a548154a0fe44d71cb0063fa05010f (patch) | |
tree | 29f60f71e430dd277a1bb2b0ab2600680721d2d8 | |
parent | 3a94707d7a7bb1eb82acae5fbc035247dd1ba8a5 (diff) |
x86/boot: Comment what finalize_identity_maps() does
So it is not really obvious that finalize_identity_maps() doesn't do any
finalization but it *actually* writes CR3 with the ident PGD. Comment
that at the call site.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
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Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c index f82975b0f9d6..f5a138c3fe96 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c @@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned long input, choice = random_addr; add_identity_map(choice, output_size); + + /* This actually loads the identity pagetable on x86_64. */ finalize_identity_maps(); out: return (unsigned char *)choice; |