x86: cleanup boot-heap usage

The kernel decompressor wrapper uses memory located beyond the
end of the image. This might lead to hard to debug problems,
but even if it can be proven to be safe, it is at the very
least unclean. I don't see any advantages either, unless you
count it not being zeroed out as an advantage. This patch
moves the boot-heap area to the bss segment.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index dad4e699f5a3..90456cee47c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -217,12 +217,6 @@ static void putstr(const char *);
 static memptr free_mem_ptr;
 static memptr free_mem_end_ptr;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-#define HEAP_SIZE             0x7000
-#else
-#define HEAP_SIZE             0x4000
-#endif
-
 static char *vidmem;
 static int vidport;
 static int lines, cols;
@@ -449,7 +443,7 @@ asmlinkage void decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
 
         window = output;                /* Output buffer (Normally at 1M) */
         free_mem_ptr     = heap;        /* Heap */
-        free_mem_end_ptr = heap + HEAP_SIZE;
+        free_mem_end_ptr = heap + BOOT_HEAP_SIZE;
         inbuf  = input_data;            /* Input buffer */
         insize = input_len;
         inptr  = 0;