[PATCH 0/4] Handle memmap and mem kernel options in boot stage kaslr

[Baoquan He]

People reported kernel panic occurs during system boots up with mem boot option.
After checking code, several problems are found about memmap= and mem= in boot stage
kaslr.

*) In commit f28442497b5c ("x86/boot: Fix KASLR and memmap= collision"), only one memmap
   entry is considered and only the last one if multiple memmap entries are specified.

*) mem= and memmap=nn[KMG] are not considered yet. They are used to limit max address
   of system. Kernel can't be randomized to be above the limit.

*) kernel-parameters.txt doesn't tell the updated behaviour of memmap=.

This patchset tries to solve above issues.

Baoquan He (4):
  param: Move function next_arg to lib/cmdline.c for later reuse
  KASLR: Parse all memmap entries in cmdline
  KASLR: Handle memory limit specified by memmap and mem option
  doc: Update description about memmap option in kernel-parameter.txt

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   9 ++
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c              |   2 +-
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c                | 161 ++++++++++++++----------
 arch/x86/boot/string.c                          |   8 ++
 include/linux/kernel.h                          |   1 +
 kernel/params.c                                 |  52 --------
 lib/cmdline.c                                   |  57 +++++++++
 7 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)

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