Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 22:37:12 EST


On 04/15/2013 03:00 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> looks you are trying redo the work for bootloader to pick loaded phys addr.
>

Well, that is exactly what they are doing. On top of that they also
need to randomize the 64-bit virtual mapping.

I wonder if we need a bootloader bit to inhibit kaslr in addition to the
command line...

-hpa


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