Re: [PATCH 0/6] randomize kernel physical address and virtual address separately

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/20/2015 07:37 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> Leftover problem:
>      hpa want to see the physical randomization can cover the whole physical memory. I
> checked code and found it's hard to do. Because in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> an identity mapping of 4G is built and then kaslr and decompressing are done. The #PF
> handler solution which he suggested is only available after jump into decompressed
> kernel, namely in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S. I didn't think of a way to do the whole
> memory covering for physical address randomization, any suggestion or idea?

Basically, it means adding an IDT and #PF handler to the decompression 
code.  Not really all that complex.

	-hpa


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