Commit-ID: 06d4a462e954756f3d3d54e6f3f1bdc2e6f592a9 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/06d4a462e954756f3d3d54e6f3f1bdc2e6f592a9 Author: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> AuthorDate: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 16:43:25 +0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 14:46:46 +0200
x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description Currently CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is set by default, which makes some of the old comments above the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE definition out of date. Update them to the current state of affairs. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: cor...@lwn.net Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc: thgar...@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181006084327.27467-2-...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h index 6afac386a434..cd0cf1c568b4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h @@ -59,13 +59,16 @@ #endif /* - * Kernel image size is limited to 1GiB due to the fixmap living in the - * next 1GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S). Use - * 512MiB by default, leaving 1.5GiB for modules once the page tables - * are fully set up. If kernel ASLR is configured, it can extend the - * kernel page table mapping, reducing the size of the modules area. + * Maximum kernel image size is limited to 1 GiB, due to the fixmap living + * in the next 1 GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S). + * + * On KASLR use 1 GiB by default, leaving 1 GiB for modules once the + * page tables are fully set up. + * + * If KASLR is disabled we can shrink it to 0.5 GiB and increase the size + * of the modules area to 1.5 GiB. */ -#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024) #else #define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (512 * 1024 * 1024)
