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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/s390/s390dbf.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst88
5 files changed, 76 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
index e4f953839f71..26efca09aef3 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -391,13 +391,13 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
- SMCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
kernel will execute on.
- - HWFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
- - HWFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+ - HFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension FA64 feature (FEAT_SME_FA64):
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
index 28152492c29c..a61c9d0efe4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
@@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ The regset data starts with struct user_sve_header, containing:
streaming mode and any SETREGSET of NT_ARM_SSVE will enter streaming mode
if the target was not in streaming mode.
+* On systems that do not support SVE it is permitted to use SETREGSET to
+ write SVE_PT_REGS_FPSIMD formatted data via NT_ARM_SVE, in this case the
+ vector length should be specified as 0. This allows streaming mode to be
+ disabled on systems with SME but not SVE.
+
* If any register data is provided along with SVE_PT_VL_ONEXEC then the
registers data will be interpreted with the current vector length, not
the vector length configured for use on exec.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
index 2f449c9b15bd..06c5280b728a 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ The following keys are defined:
defined in the in the RISC-V ISA manual starting from commit e87412e621f1
("integrate Zaamo and Zalrsc text (#1304)").
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZALASR`: The Zalasr extension is supported as
+ frozen at commit 194f0094 ("Version 0.9 for freeze") of riscv-zalasr.
+
* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZALRSC`: The Zalrsc extension is supported as
defined in the in the RISC-V ISA manual starting from commit e87412e621f1
("integrate Zaamo and Zalrsc text (#1304)").
@@ -275,6 +278,9 @@ The following keys are defined:
ratified in commit 49f49c842ff9 ("Update to Rafified state") of
riscv-zabha.
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICBOP`: The Zicbop extension is supported, as
+ ratified in commit 3dd606f ("Create cmobase-v1.0.pdf") of riscv-CMOs.
+
* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0`: Deprecated. Returns similar values to
:c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MISALIGNED_SCALAR_PERF`, but the key was
mistakenly classified as a bitmask rather than a value.
@@ -369,4 +375,7 @@ The following keys are defined:
* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_VENDOR_EXT_XSFVFWMACCQQQ`: The Xsfvfwmaccqqq
vendor extension is supported in version 1.0 of Matrix Multiply Accumulate
- Instruction Extensions Specification. \ No newline at end of file
+ Instruction Extensions Specification.
+
+* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOP_BLOCK_SIZE`: An unsigned int which
+ represents the size of the Zicbop block in bytes.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/s390/s390dbf.rst b/Documentation/arch/s390/s390dbf.rst
index af8bdc3629e7..aad6d88974fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/s390/s390dbf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/s390/s390dbf.rst
@@ -243,9 +243,8 @@ Examples:
Changing the size of debug areas
------------------------------------
-It is possible the change the size of debug areas through piping
-the number of pages to the debugfs file "pages". The resize request will
-also flush the debug areas.
+To resize a debug area, write the desired page count to the "pages" file.
+Existing data is preserved if it fits; otherwise, oldest entries are dropped.
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
index 77e6163288db..6d36ce86fd8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ Offset/size: 0x210/1
Protocol: 2.00+
============ ==================
- If your boot loader has an assigned id (see table below), enter
+ If your boot loader has an assigned ID (see table below), enter
0xTV here, where T is an identifier for the boot loader and V is
a version number. Otherwise, enter 0xFF here.
@@ -431,31 +431,31 @@ Protocol: 2.00+
ext_loader_type <- 0x05
ext_loader_ver <- 0x23
- Assigned boot loader ids (hexadecimal):
+ Assigned boot loader IDs:
== =======================================
- 0 LILO
- (0x00 reserved for pre-2.00 bootloader)
- 1 Loadlin
- 2 bootsect-loader
- (0x20, all other values reserved)
- 3 Syslinux
- 4 Etherboot/gPXE/iPXE
- 5 ELILO
- 7 GRUB
- 8 U-Boot
- 9 Xen
- A Gujin
- B Qemu
- C Arcturus Networks uCbootloader
- D kexec-tools
- E Extended (see ext_loader_type)
- F Special (0xFF = undefined)
- 10 Reserved
- 11 Minimal Linux Bootloader
- <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
- 12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
- 13 barebox
+ 0x0 LILO
+ (0x00 reserved for pre-2.00 bootloader)
+ 0x1 Loadlin
+ 0x2 bootsect-loader
+ (0x20, all other values reserved)
+ 0x3 Syslinux
+ 0x4 Etherboot/gPXE/iPXE
+ 0x5 ELILO
+ 0x7 GRUB
+ 0x8 U-Boot
+ 0x9 Xen
+ 0xA Gujin
+ 0xB Qemu
+ 0xC Arcturus Networks uCbootloader
+ 0xD kexec-tools
+ 0xE Extended (see ext_loader_type)
+ 0xF Special (0xFF = undefined)
+ 0x10 Reserved
+ 0x11 Minimal Linux Bootloader
+ <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
+ 0x12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
+ 0x13 barebox
== =======================================
Please contact <hpa@zytor.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned.
@@ -1431,12 +1431,34 @@ The boot loader *must* fill out the following fields in bp::
All other fields should be zero.
.. note::
- The EFI Handover Protocol is deprecated in favour of the ordinary PE/COFF
- entry point, combined with the LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID based initrd
- loading protocol (refer to [0] for an example of the bootloader side of
- this), which removes the need for any knowledge on the part of the EFI
- bootloader regarding the internal representation of boot_params or any
- requirements/limitations regarding the placement of the command line
- and ramdisk in memory, or the placement of the kernel image itself.
-
-[0] https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/ec80b4735a593961fe701cc3a5d717d4739b0fd0
+ The EFI Handover Protocol is deprecated in favour of the ordinary PE/COFF
+ entry point described below.
+
+.. _pe-coff-entry-point:
+
+PE/COFF entry point
+===================
+
+When compiled with ``CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y``, the kernel can be executed as a
+regular PE/COFF binary. See Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst for
+implementation details.
+
+The stub loader can request the initrd via a UEFI protocol. For this to work,
+the firmware or bootloader needs to register a handle which carries
+implementations of the ``EFI_LOAD_FILE2`` protocol and the device path
+protocol exposing the ``LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID`` vendor media device path.
+In this case, a kernel booting via the EFI stub will invoke
+``LoadFile2::LoadFile()`` method on the registered protocol to instruct the
+firmware to load the initrd into a memory location chosen by the kernel/EFI
+stub.
+
+This approach removes the need for any knowledge on the part of the EFI
+bootloader regarding the internal representation of boot_params or any
+requirements/limitations regarding the placement of the command line and
+ramdisk in memory, or the placement of the kernel image itself.
+
+For sample implementations, refer to `the original u-boot implementation`_ or
+`the OVMF implementation`_.
+
+.. _the original u-boot implementation: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/ec80b4735a593961fe701cc3a5d717d4739b0fd0
+.. _the OVMF implementation: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/1780373897f12c25075f8883e073144506441168/OvmfPkg/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand/LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c