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[PATCH v6 03/12] powerpc: introduce kernstart_virt_addr to store the kernel base

From: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Date: 2019-08-09 09:52:02
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

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..4d32d1b561d6 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 kernstart_virt_addr;
+
 #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 e223da482c0c..42ef7a6e6098 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ phys_addr_t memstart_addr __ro_after_init = (phys_addr_t)~0ull;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memstart_addr);
 phys_addr_t kernstart_addr __ro_after_init;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernstart_addr);
+unsigned long kernstart_virt_addr __ro_after_init = KERNELBASE;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernstart_virt_addr);
 
 static bool disable_kuep = !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_KUEP);
 static bool disable_kuap = !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP);
-- 
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