[PATCH v2 0/3] 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.

Changelog:
v1->v2

a)
  The original patch 1/4 has been put in tip:x86/boot and no update,
  so it's not included in this post.

b)
  Use patch log Ingo reorganized.

c)
  lib/ctype.c and lib/cmdline.c are needed for kaslr.c, while those
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) contained caused failure of build on 32-bit allmodconfig:
  ...... 
  ld: -r and -shared may not be used together
  scripts/Makefile.build:294: recipe for target 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.o' failed
  ......
  Disabling the symbol exporting removes the build failure.

d)
  Use dynamic allocation to allocate memory to contain copied kernel cmdline
  buffer, it's implemented in include/linux/decompress/mm.h.

e)
  This patchset sits on top of tip:x86/boot branch.

Baoquan He (3):
  KASLR: Parse all memmap entries in cmdline
  KASLR: Handle memory limit specified by memmap and mem option
  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' option
    description

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   9 ++
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c              |   2 +-
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c                | 185 +++++++++++++++---------
 arch/x86/boot/string.c                          |   8 +
 4 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

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