From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
bp@alien8.de, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, keescook@chromium.org, msys.mizuma@gmail.com,
indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/8] x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to dig out RSDP from EFI table
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:35:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181018043539.GF1885@192.168.1.4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181017102012.872-4-fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
On 10/17/18 at 06:20pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> There is a bug that kaslr may randomly choose some positions
> which are located in movable memory regions. This will break memory
> hotplug feature and make the movable memory chosen by KASLR can't be
> removed. So dig SRAT table from ACPI tables to get memory information.
This patch is only adding a function efi_get_rsdp_addr() which will be
used in later patch. Do we need to describe bug here?
Can we focus on what is this function, and why it's written like that,
and why it's here?
>
> Imitate the ACPI code of parsing ACPI tables to dig and read ACPI
> tables. Since some operations are not needed here, functions are
> simplified. Functions will be used to dig only SRAT tables to get
> information of memory, so that KASLR can the memory in immovable node.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-18 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-17 10:20 [PATCH v9 0/8] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit kaslr in immovable memory Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] x86/boot: Introduce cmdline_find_option_arg()to detect if option=arg in cmdline Chao Fan
2018-10-18 4:01 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-18 6:15 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period Chao Fan
2018-10-18 4:03 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-18 5:51 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-18 6:01 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-18 6:08 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to dig out RSDP from EFI table Chao Fan
2018-10-18 4:35 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2018-10-18 5:54 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-18 5:56 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-18 6:10 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] x86/boot: Add bios_get_rsdp_addr() to search RSDP in memory Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdlien from kexec Chao Fan
2018-10-21 2:26 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-22 5:30 ` Fan, Chao
2018-10-22 6:06 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-22 7:30 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-22 7:36 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] x86/boot: Dig out SRAT table from RSDP and find immovable memory Chao Fan
2018-10-18 6:12 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-21 2:34 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-22 5:29 ` Fan, Chao
2018-10-22 6:08 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] x86/boot/KASLR: Walk srat tables to filter " Chao Fan
2018-10-18 4:23 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-18 5:56 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-17 10:20 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] x86/boot/KASLR: Limit kaslr to choosing the " Chao Fan
2018-10-18 4:21 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-22 10:13 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-22 10:24 ` Baoquan He
2018-10-22 10:49 ` Chao Fan
2018-10-18 3:59 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit kaslr in " Baoquan He
2018-10-18 5:48 ` Chao Fan
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