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KASLR may randomly choose offsets which are located in movable memory regions resulting in the movable memory becoming immovable. The ACPI SRAT (System/Static Resource Affinity Table) describes memory ranges including ranges of memory provided by hot-added memory devices. In order to access SRAT, one needs the Root System Description Pointer (RSDP) with which to find the Root/Extended System Description Table (R/XSDT) which then contains the system description tables of which SRAT is one of. In case the RSDP address has been passed on the command line (kexec-ing a second kernel) parse it from there. [ bp: Rewrite the commit message and cleanup the code. ] Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: bhe@redhat.com Cc: caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: kasong@redhat.com Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: msys.mizuma@gmail.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190123110850.12433-3-fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.