Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel reserved region

[Pingfan Liu]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 5:45 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 03:59:56PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > crashkernel=x@y option may fail to reserve the required memory region if
> > KASLR puts kernel into the region. To avoid this uncertainty, making KASLR
> > skip the required region.
>
> Lemme see if I understand this correctly: supplying crashkernel=X@Y
> influences where KASLR would put the randomized kernel. And it should be

Yes, you get it.
> the other way around, IMHO. crashkernel= will have to "work" with KASLR
> to find a suitable range and if the reservation at Y fails, then we tell
> the user to try the more relaxed variant crashkernel=M.
>
I follow Baoquan's opinion. Due to the randomness caused by KASLR, a
user may be surprised to find crashkernel=x@y not working sometime. If
kernel can help them out of this corner automatically, then no need to
bother them with the message to use alternative method crashkernel=M.
Anyway it is a cheap method already used by other options like
hugepages and memmap in handle_mem_options().
If commitment, then do it without failure. Or just removing
crashkernel=x@y option on x86.

Thanks and regards,
Pingfan

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