Borislav Petkov
2020-Apr-06 11:56 UTC
[PATCH 15/70] x86/boot/compressed/64: Always switch to own page-table
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:13:12AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel at suse.de> > > When booted through startup_64 the kernel keeps running on the EFI > page-table until the KASLR code sets up its own page-table. Without > KASLR the pre-decompression boot code never switches off the EFI > page-table. Change that by unconditionally switching to our own > page-table once the kernel is relocated. > > This makes sure we can make changes to the mapping when necessary, forPls use passive voice in your commit message: no "we" or "I", etc, and describe your changes in imperative mood. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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