From 30f027398b329c75c8f23a3c13be240b50866fdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:16:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does It doesn't just control probing for the EBDA -- it controls whether we detect and reserve the <1MB BIOS regions in general. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Mario Limonciello Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Toshi Kani Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55bd591115498440d461857a7b64f349a5d911f3.1469135598.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h index c519c052700a..66c15a01667f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h @@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ struct x86_legacy_devices { * struct x86_legacy_features - legacy x86 features * * @rtc: this device has a CMOS real-time clock present - * @reserve_bios_regions: it's safe to search for the EBDA signature in the hardware's - * low RAM + * @reserve_bios_regions: boot code will search for the EBDA address and the + * start of the 640k - 1M BIOS region. If false, the platform must + * ensure that its memory map correctly reserves sub-1MB regions as needed. * @devices: legacy x86 devices, refer to struct x86_legacy_devices * documentation for further details. */ -- 2.20.1