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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 07:27:02 EST



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

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:10:49PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * 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?
>
> Let me check what I can do here.
>
> If you are fine with previous patches please apply. I will send split up
> of this patch separately.

Yes, the first 8 patches are looking good and I have already applied them locally,
will push them out after testing.

Thanks,

Ingo