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From: tip-bot for Baoquan He <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, luto@kernel.org, dvlasenk@redhat.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, bhe@redhat.com, luto@amacapital.net,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, brgerst@gmail.com, riel@surriel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 06:06:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-06d4a462e954756f3d3d54e6f3f1bdc2e6f592a9@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181006084327.27467-2-bhe@redhat.com>

Commit-ID:  06d4a462e954756f3d3d54e6f3f1bdc2e6f592a9
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/06d4a462e954756f3d3d54e6f3f1bdc2e6f592a9
Author:     Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 16:43:25 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 14:46:46 +0200

x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description

Currently CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is set by default, which makes some of the
old comments above the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE definition out of date. Update them
to the current state of affairs.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thgarnie@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181006084327.27467-2-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 6afac386a434..cd0cf1c568b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
@@ -59,13 +59,16 @@
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Kernel image size is limited to 1GiB due to the fixmap living in the
- * next 1GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S). Use
- * 512MiB by default, leaving 1.5GiB for modules once the page tables
- * are fully set up. If kernel ASLR is configured, it can extend the
- * kernel page table mapping, reducing the size of the modules area.
+ * Maximum kernel image size is limited to 1 GiB, due to the fixmap living
+ * in the next 1 GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S).
+ *
+ * On KASLR use 1 GiB by default, leaving 1 GiB for modules once the
+ * page tables are fully set up.
+ *
+ * If KASLR is disabled we can shrink it to 0.5 GiB and increase the size
+ * of the modules area to 1.5 GiB.
  */
-#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
+#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
 #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE	(1024 * 1024 * 1024)
 #else
 #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE	(512 * 1024 * 1024)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-06 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-06  8:43 [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt Baoquan He
2018-10-06  8:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description Baoquan He
2018-10-06 13:06   ` tip-bot for Baoquan He [this message]
2018-10-06  8:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptions Baoquan He
2018-10-06 13:07   ` [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/doc: Clean up the x86-64 virtual memory " tip-bot for Baoquan He
2018-10-06  8:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at the end of file Baoquan He
2018-10-06 11:28 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt Baoquan He
2018-10-06 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-10-06 12:22 ` [PATCH 4/3] x86/mm/doc: Enhance the x86-64 virtual memory layout descriptions Ingo Molnar
2018-10-06 12:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-10-06 14:41     ` Baoquan He
2018-10-06 14:38   ` [PATCH 4/3 v2] " Ingo Molnar
2018-10-06 15:02     ` Baoquan He
2018-10-06 17:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-10-06 22:17       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-09  0:35         ` Baoquan He
2018-10-09  4:48           ` Baoquan He

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