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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
	Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel reserved region
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:45:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190225094522.GC26145@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551081596-2856-1-git-send-email-kernelfans@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 03:59:56PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> crashkernel=x@y option may fail to reserve the required memory region if
> KASLR puts kernel into the region. To avoid this uncertainty, making KASLR
> skip the required region.

Lemme see if I understand this correctly: supplying crashkernel=X@Y
influences where KASLR would put the randomized kernel. And it should be
the other way around, IMHO. crashkernel= will have to "work" with KASLR
to find a suitable range and if the reservation at Y fails, then we tell
the user to try the more relaxed variant crashkernel=M.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-25  7:59 [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel reserved region Pingfan Liu
2019-02-25  8:23 ` Chao Fan
2019-02-26  3:11   ` Pingfan Liu
2019-02-25  9:45 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-02-25 13:05   ` Baoquan He
2019-02-26  5:11     ` Dave Young
2019-02-26  3:08   ` Pingfan Liu
2019-02-26 10:46     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-27  1:30       ` Baoquan He
2019-02-27  7:39         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-06  7:58           ` Pingfan Liu
2019-03-11  2:49           ` Baoquan He

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