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From: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 21/43] x86/KASLR: PKRAM: support physical kaslr
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:41:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62a1c002-ad7b-a364-5797-6d7f5545d5cf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202005071049.2D0939137D@keescook>



On 5/7/20 10:51 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:41:47PM -0700, Anthony Yznaga wrote:
>> Avoid regions of memory that contain preserved pages when computing
>> slots used to select where to put the decompressed kernel.
> This is changing the slot-walking code instead of updating
> mem_avoid_overlap() -- that's where the check for a "reserved" memory
> area should live.
>
> For example, this is how both mem_avoid_memmap() and the setup_data
> memory areas are handled.
>
> Is there a reason mem_avoid_overlap() can't be used here?
>

I was thinking it would be more efficient to process just
the regions that did not contain preserved pages rather
than checking for preserved pages in mem_avoid_overlap(),
but I see that may just be adding unnecessary complexity.
I'll investigate modifying mem_avoid_overlap().
Thank you for the comments!

Anthony

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07  0:41 [RFC 00/43] PKRAM: Preserved-over-Kexec RAM Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 01/43] mm: add PKRAM API stubs and Kconfig Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 02/43] mm: PKRAM: implement node load and save functions Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 03/43] mm: PKRAM: implement object " Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 04/43] mm: PKRAM: implement page stream operations Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 05/43] mm: PKRAM: support preserving transparent hugepages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 06/43] mm: PKRAM: implement byte stream operations Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 07/43] mm: PKRAM: link nodes by pfn before reboot Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 08/43] mm: PKRAM: introduce super block Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 09/43] PKRAM: build a physical mapping pagetable of pages to be preserved Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 10/43] PKRAM: add code for walking the preserved pages pagetable Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 11/43] PKRAM: pass the preserved pages pagetable to the next kernel Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 12/43] mm: PKRAM: reserve preserved memory at boot Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 13/43] mm: PKRAM: free preserved pages pagetable Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 14/43] mm: memblock: PKRAM: prevent memblock resize from clobbering preserved pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-11 13:57   ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-11 23:29     ` Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 15/43] PKRAM: provide a way to ban pages from use by PKRAM Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 16/43] kexec: PKRAM: prevent kexec clobbering preserved pages in some cases Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 17/43] PKRAM: provide a way to check if a memory range has preserved pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 18/43] kexec: PKRAM: avoid clobbering already " Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 19/43] mm: PKRAM: allow preserved memory to be freed from userspace Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 20/43] PKRAM: disable feature when running the kdump kernel Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 21/43] x86/KASLR: PKRAM: support physical kaslr Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07 17:51   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-07 18:41     ` Anthony Yznaga [this message]
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 22/43] mm: shmem: introduce shmem_insert_page Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 23/43] mm: shmem: enable saving to PKRAM Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 24/43] mm: shmem: prevent swapping of PKRAM-enabled tmpfs pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 25/43] mm: shmem: specify the mm to use when inserting pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 26/43] mm: shmem: when inserting, handle pages already charged to a memcg Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 27/43] x86/mm/numa: add numa_isolate_memblocks() Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 28/43] PKRAM: ensure memblocks with preserved pages init'd for numa Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 29/43] memblock: PKRAM: mark memblocks that contain preserved pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 30/43] memblock: add for_each_reserved_mem_range() Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 31/43] memblock, mm: defer initialization of preserved pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 32/43] shmem: PKRAM: preserve shmem files a chunk at a time Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:41 ` [RFC 33/43] PKRAM: atomically add and remove link pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 34/43] shmem: PKRAM: multithread preserving and restoring shmem pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07 16:30   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-07 17:59     ` Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 35/43] shmem: introduce shmem_insert_pages() Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 36/43] PKRAM: add support for loading pages in bulk Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 37/43] shmem: PKRAM: enable bulk loading of preserved pages into shmem Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 38/43] mm: implement splicing a list of pages to the LRU Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 39/43] shmem: optimize adding pages to the LRU in shmem_insert_pages() Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 40/43] shmem: initial support for adding multiple pages to pagecache Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 41/43] XArray: add xas_export_node() and xas_import_node() Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 42/43] shmem: reduce time holding xa_lock when inserting pages Anthony Yznaga
2020-05-07  0:42 ` [RFC 43/43] PKRAM: improve index alignment of pkram_link entries Anthony Yznaga

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