On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 09:40:51AM -0400, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote: > I have another idea to solve this issue. Adding a SRAT parsing code > to arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c. It is useful for both EFI and BIOS and > also we don't need a new kernel parameter... > Dose the idea make sense? Ok, having swapped the whole thing back into my brain, forget what I said earlier today. Didn't we talk about passing info with setup_data to the later kernel stage? You even had a patch: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181022154204.kagmdb55jtoez4ca@gabell So what is that "idea" again about adding SRAT parsing code to arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c?!?! The intent of passing info with setup_data is to *avoid* parsing SRAT yet another time and duplicating that code one more time. IOW: * The first place that needs SRAT parsing, does the parsing - i.e., the compressed stage. * Later stages get information passed to them with setup_data. No second parsing. Ok? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
