Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I am sorry the previous post didn't contain formal patch log. I made a new one 
> as below. The boot crash could not only happen with certain memory. Because of 
> this code bug the regions which need be avoided like the zipped kernel with its 
> unzipping running code, initrd, kernel command line could be corrupted if 
> mem_avoid_overlap() can't find the overlap region with the lowest address. But 
> it's very lucky that Xiaolong's system which has only 300M memory can always 
> reproduce it. I checked the boog log and found on his system no any other slot 
> can be chosen except for the original one. If we have a system with large memory 
> it may not be easy to hit it, at least with low probability since there are many 
> candidate slots.

So if it's just a better changelog that what I wrote I wouldn't rebase the commit: 
there's other commits on top of the fix meanwhile. Should a rebase become 
necessary at a later point I'll update it with your extended changelog.

Thanks,

	Ingo