Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] x86/mm: Move LDT remap out of KASLR region on 5-level paging

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 09:12:51 EST


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
> @@ -34,23 +34,24 @@ __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________
> ____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________
> | | | |
> ffff800000000000 | -128 TB | ffff87ffffffffff | 8 TB | ... guard hole, also reserved for hypervisor

Oh good, it's been rewritten for people with 200-column screens. It's
too painful to review now.

This is how it looks for me, Ingo:

> @@ -34,23 +34,24 @@ __________________|____________|__________________|_______
__|___________________
> ____________________________________________________________|________________
___________________________________________
> | | | |
> ffff800000000000 | -128 TB | ffff87ffffffffff | 8 TB | ... guard hole,
also reserved for hypervisor

If it were being formatted in rst so we could get a nice html view out
of the conversion, I'd understand. But I don't see what we get from
this hilariously verbose reformatting.