From: mlangsdo@redhat.com (Mark Langsdorf)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:39:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B121FF.8040707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160202180622.GP10166@arm.com>
On 02/02/2016 12:06 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 06:56:39PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> After discussing in linux-efi with Mark, and on #armlinux with Will, this is
>> a proposal for dealing with initrd memory that is potentially not covered by
>> the linear region.
>>
>> Note that this will look slightly differently when some of the KASLR work gets
>> merged, but this should only affect the way we deal with the initrd if it sits
>> outside of the linear region.
>>
>> Mostly intended for discussion, not tested at all.
>
> Thanks Ard, this looks like a much better approach to me. Mark -- does
> the general idea work for you too?
I'm not quite the right Mark but Mark Salter is on vacation
and I was the one who discovered this bug. These patches
do fix the problem and it looks like they tidy up some
code. Will they be in v4.5-rc3?
--Mark Langsdorf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 17:56 [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] memblock: add routine to clear the MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag for a region Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64: add the initrd region to the linear mapping explicitly Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: remove the now unneeded relocate_initrd() Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation Will Deacon
2016-02-02 21:39 ` Mark Langsdorf [this message]
2016-02-03 14:22 ` Mark Salter
2016-02-03 14:26 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-08 16:17 ` Jeremy Linton
2016-02-02 21:39 ` Mark Langsdorf
2016-02-03 8:42 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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