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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c index 8cac5b6103db..8f8c8e386cea 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c @@ -238,21 +238,17 @@ static void update_pecoff_text(unsigned int text_start, unsigned int file_sz, pe_header = get_unaligned_le32(&buf[0x3c]); -#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED /* - * In mixed mode, we will execute startup_32() at whichever offset in - * memory it happened to land when the PE/COFF loader loaded the image, - * which may be misaligned with respect to the kernel_alignment field - * in the setup header. + * The PE/COFF loader may load the image at an address which is + * misaligned with respect to the kernel_alignment field in the setup + * header. * - * In order for startup_32 to safely execute in place at this offset, - * we need to ensure that the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN aligned allocation - * it creates for the page tables does not extend beyond the declared - * size of the image in the PE/COFF header. So add the required slack. + * In order to avoid relocating the kernel to correct the misalignment, + * add slack to allow the buffer to be aligned within the declared size + * of the image. */ bss_sz += CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN; init_sz += CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN; -#endif /* * Size of code: Subtract the size of the first sector (512 bytes) |