EFI allocate runtime services regions from EFI_VA_START, -4G, down
to -68G, EFI_VA_END, 64G altogether. The mechanism was introduced in
commit d2f7cbe7b26a7 ("x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping").
Clean it up to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
Update patch log to corret a description mistake Ard pointed out.
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index a4695da..6cbf9e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
/*
- * We allocate runtime services regions bottom-up, starting from -4G, i.e.
+ * We allocate runtime services regions top-down, starting from -4G, i.e.
* 0xffff_ffff_0000_0000 and limit EFI VA mapping space to 64G.
*/
static u64 efi_va = EFI_VA_START;
--
2.5.5
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