x86/mm: Add a few comments

It's a shame to hide useful comments in Changelogs, add some to the
code.

Shamelessly stolen from commit:

  c40a56a7818c ("x86/mm/init: Remove freed kernel image areas from alias mapping")

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221110125544.460677011%40infradead.org

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 06eb891..50f81ea 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -219,6 +219,23 @@ within_inclusive(unsigned long addr, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 
+/*
+ * The kernel image is mapped into two places in the virtual address space
+ * (addresses without KASLR, of course):
+ *
+ * 1. The kernel direct map (0xffff880000000000)
+ * 2. The "high kernel map" (0xffffffff81000000)
+ *
+ * We actually execute out of #2. If we get the address of a kernel symbol, it
+ * points to #2, but almost all physical-to-virtual translations point to #1.
+ *
+ * This is so that we can have both a directmap of all physical memory *and*
+ * take full advantage of the the limited (s32) immediate addressing range (2G)
+ * of x86_64.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst for more detail.
+ */
+
 static inline unsigned long highmap_start_pfn(void)
 {
        return __pa_symbol(_text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -1626,6 +1643,9 @@ repeat:
 
 static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias);
 
+/*
+ * Check the directmap and "high kernel map" 'aliases'.
+ */
 static int cpa_process_alias(struct cpa_data *cpa)
 {
        struct cpa_data alias_cpa;