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| From | Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems |
| Date | 2017-04-19 17:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <txZp1-4Zt-45@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> Does the randomization ever cross a pgd boundary?
Yes, it can cross a pgd boundary. The original physical memory mapping
might as well but you would need almost 550Gb of memory.
>
> These crashes look very similar to the crashes caused by
> arch_add_memory() racing itself. This issue was fixed in:
>
> f931ab479dd2 mm: fix devm_memremap_pages crash, use
> mem_hotplug_{begin, done}
>
> ...but that only helps users that call mem_hotplug_begin() to prevent
> concurrent updates.
>
It could be related to page table changes done concurrently or just
done with certain expectations.
--
Thomas
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Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> - 2017-04-19 17:10 +0200
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