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Commit 85414b69 authored Jul 11, 2007 by H. Peter Anvin Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 12, 2007

Define zero-page offset 0x1e4 as a scratch field, and use it



The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor
to determine its own location.  It was using a location inside
struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch
instead.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 1d67953f

Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt

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		@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Offset Type Description
		0x1d0 unsigned long EFI memory descriptor map pointer
		0x1d4 unsigned long EFI memory descriptor map size
		0x1e0 unsigned long ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
		0x1e4 unsigned long Scratch field for the kernel setup code
		0x1e8 char number of entries in E820MAP (below)
		0x1e9 unsigned char number of entries in EDDBUF (below)
		0x1ea unsigned char number of entries in EDD_MBR_SIG_BUFFER (below)

arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S

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		@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ startup_32:
		* at and where we were actually loaded at. This can only be done
		* with a short local call on x86. Nothing else will tell us what
		* address we are running at. The reserved chunk of the real-mode
		* data at 0x34-0x3f are used as the stack for this calculation.
		* Only 4 bytes are needed.
		* data at 0x1e4 (defined as a scratch field) are used as the stack
		* for this calculation. Only 4 bytes are needed.
		*/
		leal 0x40(%esi), %esp
		leal (0x1e4+4)(%esi), %esp
		call 1f
		1: popl %ebp
		subl $1b, %ebp

arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S

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		@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ startup_32:
		* at and where we were actually loaded at. This can only be done
		* with a short local call on x86. Nothing else will tell us what
		* address we are running at. The reserved chunk of the real-mode
		* data at 0x34-0x3f are used as the stack for this calculation.
		* Only 4 bytes are needed.
		* data at 0x1e4 (defined as a scratch field) are used as the stack
		* for this calculation. Only 4 bytes are needed.
		*/
		leal 0x40(%esi), %esp
		leal (0x1e4+4)(%esi), %esp
		call 1f
		1: popl %ebp
		subl $1b, %ebp