From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@unikie.com>,
Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 17:46:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200504154613.GA14031@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2004241316360.851719@eddie.linux-mips.org>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>
> > > Alternatively, have you made any attempt to verify if actually replacing
> > >the setting for VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS would be safe? Glancing over its use
> > >there do not appear to be many places.
> >
> > Limited experiments showed it should be fine...
> >
> > But MIPS kernel has some design I'm not really familiar with like SYM32 for
> > 64-bit kernel and special address space design for Trap-and-emul KVM.
>
> This only affects CONFIG_32BIT kernels, so SYM32 does not apply; I can't
> comment on KVM. There's still that bunch of:
>
> $(shell expr $(...) \< 0xffffffff80000000)
>
> constructs I mentioned before, so let's leave your change as it stands at
> this time. Please do rename the variable as I suggested though, I hope
> that's not a big deal.
Jiaxun, are you going to send an update with this change ?
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 6:26 [PATCH v4] MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel Jiaxun Yang
2020-04-13 6:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-13 7:32 ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-04-13 15:34 ` Fangrui Song
2020-04-13 20:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-13 20:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-13 16:25 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-13 18:52 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-22 14:32 ` [PATCH v5] " Jiaxun Yang
2020-04-22 22:16 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-23 0:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-23 5:42 ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-04-24 12:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-04 15:46 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2020-05-04 16:09 ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-05-04 16:56 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
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