[PATCH 1/3] x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description
From: Baoquan He <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-06 08:43:49
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the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
Currently CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is set by default, which makes some of the old comments above the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE definition out of date. Update them to the current state of affairs. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <redacted> --- arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 6afac386a434..cd0cf1c568b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h@@ -59,13 +59,16 @@ #endif /* - * 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. + * Maximum kernel image size is limited to 1 GiB, due to the fixmap living + * in the next 1 GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S). + * + * On KASLR use 1 GiB by default, leaving 1 GiB for modules once the + * page tables are fully set up. + * + * If KASLR is disabled we can shrink it to 0.5 GiB and increase the size + * of the modules area to 1.5 GiB. */ -#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024) #else #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (512 * 1024 * 1024)
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