Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm/KASLR: Only build one PUD entry of area for real mode trampoline

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:56:15AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> The current code builds identity mapping for real mode treampoline by
> borrowing page tables from the direct mapping section if KASLR is
> enabled. It will copy present entries of the first PUD table in 4-level
> paging mode, or the first P4D table in 5-level paging mode.
> 
> However, there's only a very small area under low 1 MB reserved
> for real mode trampoline in reserve_real_mode(). Makes no sense
> to build up so large area of mapping for it. Since the randomization
> granularity in 4-level is 1 GB, and 512 GB in 5-level, only copying
> one PUD entry is enough.
> 
> Hence, only copy one PUD entry of area where physical address 0
> resides. And this is preparation for later changing the randomization
> granularity of 5-level paging mode from 512 GB to 1 GB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov