Re: [PATCH 9/9] x86/mm: Adjust virtual address space layout in early boot

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 07:10:58 EST



* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We need to adjust virtual address space to support switching between
> paging modes.
>
> The adjustment happens in __startup_64().
>
> We also have to change KASLR code that doesn't expect variable
> VMALLOC_SIZE_TB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 14 ++++++++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 9 ++----
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 25 +++++++++--------
> arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 2 +-
> arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 3 ++
> arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 11 ++++----
> 7 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

This is too large and risky - would it be possible to split this up into multiple,
smaller patches?

Thanks,

Ingo