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Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:22:17 +0800
From:   Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 1/5] x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:58:14PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:16:27PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
>> To fix the conflict between KASLR and memory-hotremove, memory
>> information in SRAT table is necessary.
>> 
>> ACPI SRAT (System/Static Resource Affinity Table) can show the details
>> about memory ranges, including ranges of memory provided by hot-added
>> memory devices. SRAT table must be introduced by RSDP pointer (Root
>> System Description Pointer). So RSDP should be found firstly.
>> 
>> When booting form KEXEC/EFI/BIOS, the methods to find RSDP pointer
>> are different. When booting from KEXEC, 'acpi_rsdp' may have been
>> added to cmdline, so parse the cmdline and find the RSDP pointer.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c   |  5 +++++
>>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h   |  4 ++++
>>  lib/kstrtox.c                     |  5 +++++
>>  4 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..614c45655cff
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
>
>Also, I guess calling that file simply "acpi.c" is good enough.

Fine, so change it next version.

>
>> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +#define BOOT_CTYPE_H
>> +#include "misc.h"
>> +#include "error.h"
>> +
>> +#include <linux/efi.h>
>> +#include <asm/efi.h>
>
>asm/ headers come after linux/ header.

Will change the place of header.

Thanks,
Chao Fan

>
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>
>Thx.
>
>-- 
>Regards/Gruss,
>    Boris.
>
>Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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