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x86/boot: Comment what finalize_identity_maps() does

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So it is not really obvious that finalize_identity_maps() doesn't do any
finalization but it *actually* writes CR3 with the ident PGD. Comment
that at the call site.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: jkosina@suse.cz
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160507100541.GA24613@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Borislav Petkov 2016-05-07 11:59:40 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned long input,
choice = random_addr;
add_identity_map(choice, output_size);
/* This actually loads the identity pagetable on x86_64. */
finalize_identity_maps();
out:
return (unsigned char *)choice;