Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt

From: Baoquan He
Date: Sat Oct 06 2018 - 07:28:48 EST


On 10/06/18 at 04:43pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> This clean up is suggested by Ingo.
>
> It firstly fix the confusions in mm layout tables by unifying
> each memory region description in the consistent style.
>
> Secondly take the KASLR words out of the mm layout tables to make
> it as a separate section to only list mm layout in non-KASLR case.
> Then add KASLR document at the end of mm.txt.
>
> Meanwhile update description about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE in
> arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h .

Sorry, this is V3 post. I forgot adding v3 tag in patch subject.

>
> v2->v3:
> Ingo helped to prettify the patch log and code comment, repost them
> after updating accordign to Ingo's suggestions.
>
> v1->v2:
>
> Resend v2 since some typo and incorrect descriptions found in v1 post.
>
> Baoquan He (3):
> x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description
> x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptions
> x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at
> the end of file
>
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 15 ++--
> 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.13.6
>