Re: [PATCHv5 0/2] x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel region

[Pingfan Liu]

Maintainers, ping?
Hi Borislav, during the review of V4, you suggested to re-design the
return value of parse_crashkernel(), the latest try is on
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1065514/. It seems hard to
move on in that thread. On the other hand, my series "[PATCHv5 0/2]
x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel region" has no depend
on the "re-design the return value of parse_crashkernel()".

Thanks,
  Pingfan
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:32 PM Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> crashkernel=x@y or or =range1:size1[,range2:size2,...]@offset option may
> fail to reserve the required memory region if KASLR puts kernel into the
> region. To avoid this uncertainty, asking KASLR to skip the required
> region.
> And the parsing routine can be re-used at this early boot stage.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> v3 -> v4:
>   reuse the parse_crashkernel_xx routines
> v4 -> v5:
>   drop unnecessary initialization of crash_base in [2/2]
>
> Pingfan Liu (2):
>   kernel/crash_core: separate the parsing routines to
>     lib/parse_crashkernel.c
>   x86/boot/KASLR: skip the specified crashkernel region
>
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c |  40 ++++++
>  kernel/crash_core.c              | 273 ------------------------------------
>  lib/Makefile                     |   2 +
>  lib/parse_crashkernel.c          | 289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 331 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/parse_crashkernel.c
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>