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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [POC][RFC][PATCH 1/2] mm/x86: Add wildcard * option as
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 04:41:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 07:11:56PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:23:07 -0700
> > Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Do we need to involve e820 at all? I think it might be possible to just
> > > have pstore call request_mem_region() very early? Or does KASLR make
> > > that unstable?
> > 
> > Yeah, would that give the same physical memory each boot, and can we
> > guarantee that KASLR will not map the kernel over the previous location?
> 
> Hm, no, for physical memory it needs to get excluded very early, which
> means e820.

Whatever memory is reserved in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c, that happens after
kaslr, so to begin with, a new memmap parameter should be also added to
parse_memmap in arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c to ensure the same
physical address will be available after KASLR.

More generally, memmap= is x86 specific and a bit of a hack.
Why won't you add a new kernel parameter that will be parsed in, say, 
mm/mm_init.c and will create the mmap_map (or whatever it will be named)
and reserve that memory in memblock rather than in e820?

This still will require update to arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c of
course.

> So, yeah, your proposal makes sense. I'm not super excited
> about this be x86-only though. What does arm64 for for memmap?
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.