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Message-ID: <20180524110306.GA20225@amd>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 13:03:06 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/27] x86/acpi: Adapt assembly for PIE support

On Wed 2018-05-23 12:54:03, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
> 
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the
> KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.

What testing did this get?

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> index 50b8ed0317a3..472659c0f811 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  	 * Hooray, we are in Long 64-bit mode (but still running in low memory)
>  	 */
>  ENTRY(wakeup_long64)
> -	movq	saved_magic, %rax
> +	movq	saved_magic(%rip), %rax
>  	movq	$0x123456789abcdef0, %rdx
>  	cmpq	%rdx, %rax
>  	jne	bogus_64_magic

Because, as comment says, this is rather tricky code.
									Pavel

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