From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, thgarnie@google.com,
corbet@lwn.net, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/KASLR: Update document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:58:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180926235823.3567-2-bhe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180926235823.3567-1-bhe@redhat.com>
Currently CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is default set, update the relevant
document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 6afac386a434..2288ceabdb9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
@@ -61,9 +61,10 @@
/*
* 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.
+ * 1 GiB by default, leaving 1 GiB for modules once the page tables are
+ * fully set up. If kernel ASLR is not configured, it can shrink the
+ * kernel page table mapping to decrease the size of kernel area to 512
+ * MiB, increase the size of the modules area to 1.5 GiB.
*/
#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
#define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024)
--
2.13.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-26 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 23:58 [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt Baoquan He
2018-09-26 23:58 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2018-10-03 7:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/KASLR: Update document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE Ingo Molnar
2018-10-03 8:43 ` Baoquan He
2018-09-26 23:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptions Baoquan He
2018-10-02 9:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-10-03 8:45 ` Baoquan He
2018-09-26 23:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at the end of file Baoquan He
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