[PATCHv7 5/4] x86/boot/compressed/64: Support switching from 5- to 4-level paging

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Jan 29 2018 - 10:08:16 EST


If a bootloader enabled 5-level paging before handing off control to
kernel, we may want to switch it to 4-level paging when kernel is
compiled with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=n.

Let's modify decompression code to handle the situation.

This will fail if the kernel image is loaded above 64TiB since 4-level
paging would not be able to access the image.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 17 +++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index f5ac9a6515ef..5942b7d9d6a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -520,19 +520,32 @@ ENTRY(trampoline_32bit_src)
btrl $X86_CR0_PG_BIT, %eax
movl %eax, %cr0

- /* For 5-level paging, point CR3 to the trampoline's new top level page table */
+ /* Check what paging mode we want to be in after the trampoline */
cmpl $0, %edx
jz 1f

/* Don't touch CR3 if it already points to 5-level page tables */
movl %cr4, %eax
testl $X86_CR4_LA57, %eax
- jnz 1f
+ jnz 2f

+ /* For 5-level paging, point CR3 to the trampoline's new top level page table */
leal TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_PGTABLE_OFFSET(%ecx), %eax
movl %eax, %cr3
1:
+ /* Don't touch CR3 if it already points to 4-level page tables */
+ movl %cr4, %eax
+ testl $X86_CR4_LA57, %eax
+ jz 2f

+ /*
+ * We are in 5-level paging mode, but we want to switch to 4-level.
+ * Let's take the first entry in the top-level page table as our new CR3.
+ */
+ movl %cr3, %eax
+ movl (%eax), %eax
+ movl %eax, %cr3
+2:
/* Enable PAE and LA57 (if required) paging modes */
movl %cr4, %eax
orl $X86_CR4_PAE, %eax
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
index 6e0db2260147..cd62c546afd5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_PGTABLE_OFFSET 0

#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET PAGE_SIZE
-#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE 0x60
+#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE 0x70

#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_STACK_END TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_SIZE

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