x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does

It doesn't just control probing for the EBDA -- it controls whether we
detect and reserve the <1MB BIOS regions in general.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55bd591115498440d461857a7b64f349a5d911f3.1469135598.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
index c519c052700a705b581c6f9a48576d5172c91267..66c15a01667f66dc6095914bb96c9f092a56127d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
@@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ struct x86_legacy_devices {
  * struct x86_legacy_features - legacy x86 features
  *
  * @rtc: this device has a CMOS real-time clock present
- * @reserve_bios_regions: it's safe to search for the EBDA signature in the hardware's
- *     low RAM
+ * @reserve_bios_regions: boot code will search for the EBDA address and the
+ *     start of the 640k - 1M BIOS region.  If false, the platform must
+ *     ensure that its memory map correctly reserves sub-1MB regions as needed.
  * @devices: legacy x86 devices, refer to struct x86_legacy_devices
  *     documentation for further details.
  */