Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755326AbaA1QvT (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:51:19 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com ([209.85.220.182]:43872 "EHLO mail-vc0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754645AbaA1QvQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:51:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52E7DB15.3090808@zytor.com> References: <201401201647.s0KGlZdh004167@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <52E5EFAF.3060609@linux.intel.com> <52E6954F.2060303@nod.at> <20140128062806.GA20750@gmail.com> <52E76997.40303@nod.at> <52E7D2E5.8090208@linux.intel.com> <52E7D9FF.1080506@nod.at> <52E7DB15.3090808@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:51:15 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gM7eRXpz_NbAA-CB9JUVPhwGEbQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14 From: Linus Torvalds To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Richard Weinberger , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Cong Ding , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mathias Krause , Michael Davidson , Thomas Gleixner , Wei Yongjun Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:30 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I don't think there is any way to not break anything... we're > introducing a new kind of object ("normalized kernel pointer") here. I suspect we could just drop the addresses entirely if we have a symbolic version. It's not like the hex addresses are all that interesting, and in commit messages I actually end up editing them out just because they are worthless noise. So we could just do "schedule+0x45/0x368" without the actual hex address in brackets.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/