Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] powerpc: introduce kimage_vaddr to store the kernel base
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2019-08-07 13:03:33
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Jason Yan [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Now the kernel base is a fixed value - KERNELBASE. To support KASLR, we need a variable to store the kernel base. Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com> Cc: Diana Craciun <redacted> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Christophe Leroy <redacted> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <redacted> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted> Reviewed-by: Diana Craciun <redacted> Tested-by: Diana Craciun <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h index 0d52f57fca04..60a68d3a54b1 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order); struct vm_area_struct; +extern unsigned long kimage_vaddr; + #include <asm-generic/memory_model.h> #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #include <asm/slice.h>diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c index 152ae0d21435..d4801ce48dc5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ phys_addr_t memstart_addr = (phys_addr_t)~0ull; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memstart_addr); phys_addr_t kernstart_addr; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernstart_addr); +unsigned long kimage_vaddr = KERNELBASE; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kimage_vaddr);
The names of the #defines and variables we use for these values are not very consistent already, but using kimage_vaddr makes it worse I think. Isn't this going to have the same value as kernstart_addr, but the virtual rather than physical address? If so kernstart_virt_addr would seem better. cheers