Please consider the patches below for backporting to v6.1. They should all apply cleanly in the given order. These are prerequisites for NX compat support on x86, but the remaining changes do not apply cleanly and will be sent as a patch series at a later date. By themselves, these changes not only constitute a reasonable cleanup, they are also needed for future support of x86s [0] CPUs that are no longer able to transition out of long mode. Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 2 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 17 + arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 8 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S | 383 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_thunk_64.S | 195 ---------- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 25 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 566 ++++++----------------------- arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S | 152 +++++++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 34 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 2 - arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h | 10 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 87 ++--- arch/x86/boot/header.S | 2 +- arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c | 2 + drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 22 ++ drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/alignedmem.c | 5 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c | 6 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 6 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/mem.c | 3 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c | 5 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 53 ++- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 13 +- include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 2 +- 23 files changed, 805 insertions(+), 795 deletions(-) [0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html 9cf42bca30e9 efi: libstub: use EFI_LOADER_CODE region when moving the kernel in memory cb8bda8ad443 x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S e2ab9eab324c x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section 5c3a85f35b58 x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code 91592b5c0c2f x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section 73a6dec80e2a x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S 7f22ca396778 x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S 4b52016247ae x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one 630f337f0c4f x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk 6aac80a8da46 x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry() d73a257f7f86 x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt() c6355995ba47 x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section 9ea813be3d34 x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S b5d854cd4b6a x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text 9d7eaae6a071 x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S 30c9ca16a527 x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit() 61de13df9590 x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y bad267f9e18f efi: verify that variable services are supported 0217a40d7ba6 efi: efivars: prevent double registration cc3fdda2876e x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional 7734a0f31e99 x86/boot: Robustify calling startup_{32,64}() from the decompressor code d2d7a54f69b6 x86/efistub: Branch straight to kernel entry point from C code df9215f15206 x86/efistub: Simplify and clean up handover entry code 127920645876 x86/decompressor: Avoid magic offsets for EFI handover entrypoint d7156b986d4c x86/efistub: Clear BSS in EFI handover protocol entrypoint 8b63cba746f8 x86/decompressor: Store boot_params pointer in callee save register 00c6b0978ec1 x86/decompressor: Assign paging related global variables earlier e8972a76aa90 x86/decompressor: Call trampoline as a normal function 918a7a04e717 x86/decompressor: Use standard calling convention for trampoline bd328aa01ff7 x86/decompressor: Avoid the need for a stack in the 32-bit trampoline 64ef578b6b68 x86/decompressor: Call trampoline directly from C code f97b67a773cd x86/decompressor: Only call the trampoline when changing paging levels cb83cece57e1 x86/decompressor: Pass pgtable address to trampoline directly 03dda95137d3 x86/decompressor: Merge trampoline cleanup with switching code 24388292e2d7 x86/decompressor: Move global symbol references to C code 8217ad0a435f decompress: Use 8 byte alignment
