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SubjectRe: BUG() at boot in __phys_addr with DEBUG_VIRTUAL
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On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 18:25 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
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> But before we do that: Matt, why do we need the kernel text mapped 1:1
> in the EFI page table at all?
>
> You've added this with
>
> 4f9dbcfc4029 ("x86/efi: Add mixed runtime services support")

So that when we switch into 32-bit mode we can still access the kernel
text via the 1:1 mapping in protected mode.



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