From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> The early statically allocated page tables are populated from code that executes from a 1:1 mapping so it cannot use plain accesses from C. Replace the use of fixup_pointer() with RIP_REL_REF(), which is better and simpler. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c index e2573ddae32f..7e2c9b581d58 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c @@ -215,13 +215,11 @@ unsigned long __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr, p4d[511] += load_delta; } - pud = fixup_pointer(level3_kernel_pgt, physaddr); - pud[510] += load_delta; - pud[511] += load_delta; + RIP_REL_REF(level3_kernel_pgt)[PTRS_PER_PUD - 2].pud += load_delta; + RIP_REL_REF(level3_kernel_pgt)[PTRS_PER_PUD - 1].pud += load_delta; - pmd = fixup_pointer(level2_fixmap_pgt, physaddr); for (i = FIXMAP_PMD_TOP; i > FIXMAP_PMD_TOP - FIXMAP_PMD_NUM; i--) - pmd[i] += load_delta; + RIP_REL_REF(level2_fixmap_pgt)[i].pmd += load_delta; /* * Set up the identity mapping for the switchover. These @@ -284,7 +282,7 @@ unsigned long __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr, * error, causing the BIOS to halt the system. */ - pmd = fixup_pointer(level2_kernel_pgt, physaddr); + pmd = &RIP_REL_REF(level2_kernel_pgt)->pmd; /* invalidate pages before the kernel image */ for (i = 0; i < pmd_index((unsigned long)_text); i++) -- 2.44.0.rc0.258.g7320e95886-goog