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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 17/18] arm64: Kconfig: Add CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
Hi Will,

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Add a Kconfig entry to control use of the entry trampoline, which allows
> us to unmap the kernel whilst running in userspace and improve the
> robustness of KASLR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

This is now commit 084eb77cd3a81134 in arm64/for-next/core.

> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index fdcc7b9bb15d..3af1657fcac3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -833,6 +833,19 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
> However for 4K, we choose a higher default value, 11 as opposed to 10, giving us
> 4M allocations matching the default size used by generic code.
>
> +config UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
> + bool "Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka \"KAISER\")"

But I believe this is no longer called KAISER?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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