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authorSascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-07-04 17:16:47 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2016-08-08 15:41:31 +0200
commitbf47dc572aaf53c3f2311c71e03ec01be3131fd6 (patch)
tree199076746e7013463f782b78dcfa1b86fb463986 /arch/s390/kernel
parentLinux 4.8-rc1 (diff)
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s390: clarify compressed image code path
The way the decompressor is hooked into the start-up code is rather subtle, with a mix of multiply-defined symbols and hardcoded address literals. Add some comments at the junction points to clarify how it works. Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/head.S4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/head.S b/arch/s390/kernel/head.S
index 56e4d8234ef2..4431905f8cfa 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/head.S
@@ -309,7 +309,9 @@ ENTRY(startup_kdump)
l %r15,.Lstack-.LPG0(%r13)
ahi %r15,-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD
brasl %r14,verify_facilities
- /* Continue with startup code in head64.S */
+# For uncompressed images, continue in
+# arch/s390/kernel/head64.S. For compressed images, continue in
+# arch/s390/boot/compressed/head.S.
jg startup_continue
.Lstack: