From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755243AbcEBWAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 18:00:55 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:50787 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755061AbcEBWAx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2016 18:00:53 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,569,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="967245848" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86, boot: Implement ASLR for kernel memory sections (x86_64) To: Thomas Garnier , "H . Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , Dmitry Vyukov , Paolo Bonzini , Dan Williams , Kees Cook , Stephen Smalley , Kefeng Wang , Jonathan Corbet , Matt Fleming , Toshi Kani , Alexander Kuleshov , Alexander Popov , Joerg Roedel , Dave Young , Baoquan He , Mark Salter , Boris Ostrovsky References: <1462225276-106993-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com> <1462225276-106993-4-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, gthelen@google.com, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <5727CE13.6090308@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 15:00:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1462225276-106993-4-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/02/2016 02:41 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote: > -#define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(0xffff880000000000, UL) > +#define __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE _AC(0xffff880000000000, UL) > +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY > +#define __PAGE_OFFSET page_offset_base > +#else > +#define __PAGE_OFFSET __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE > +#endif /* CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY */ Do you have any data about the performance impact of this change? It's not necessary to have it to merge something like this, I'm just curious how bad it is.