Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit kaslr in immovable memory

Baoquan He
2018-10-10T09:30:57Z

On 10/10/18 at 11:19am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:14:26AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Yes, it's different, but if the SRAT information is available early, then
> > the command line parameter can go away because then the required
> > information for Masa's problem is available as well.
>
> Exactly. And I'd prefer we delayed the command line parameter until we
> figure out we really need it and not expose it to upstream and then
> remove it shortly after.
>
> So I'd suggest we move Masa's patches to a separate branch and not send
> it up this round.

Yes, sounds more reasonable if we can reuse functions in Chao's patch 1/3
to solve the padding issue.

Thanks
Baoquan