Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/32

From: Scott Wood
Date: Wed Oct 09 2019 - 14:53:34 EST


On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 16:41 +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> On 2019/10/9 15:13, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 14:10 +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> > > Hi Scott,
> > >
> > > Would you please take sometime to test this?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much.
> > >
> > > On 2019/9/24 13:52, Jason Yan wrote:
> > > > Hi Scott,
> > > >
> > > > Can you test v7 to see if it works to load a kernel at a non-zero
> > > > address?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> >
> > Sorry for the delay. Here's the output:
> >
>
> Thanks for the test.
>
> > ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 10000000 ...
> > Image Name: Linux-5.4.0-rc2-00050-g8ac2cf5b4
> > Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> > Data Size: 7521134 Bytes = 7.2 MiB
> > Load Address: 04000000
> > Entry Point: 04000000
> > Verifying Checksum ... OK
> > ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 1fc00000
> > Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1fc00000
> > Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> > Loading Device Tree to 07fe0000, end 07fff65c ... OK
> > KASLR: No safe seed for randomizing the kernel base.
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node qman-fqd, compatible id fsl,qman-fqd
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node qman-pfdr, compatible id fsl,qman-pfdr
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node bman-fbpr, compatible id fsl,bman-fbpr
> > Memory CAM mapping: 64/64/64 Mb, residual: 12032Mb
>
> When boot from 04000000, the max CAM value is 64M. And
> you have a board with 12G memory, CONFIG_LOWMEM_CAM_NUM=3 means only
> 192M memory is mapped and when kernel is randomized at the middle of
> this 192M memory, we will not have enough continuous memory for node map.
>
> Can you set CONFIG_LOWMEM_CAM_NUM=8 and see if it works?

OK, that worked.

-Scott