Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:55:21 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14 |
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On 01/21/2014 02:27 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Hm, live annotation of the kernel image is a relatively new perf > feature, and KASLR predated that (by years) - which would at least in > part explain why it went unnoticed. (Although it does not excuse the > lack of testing.) >
kASLR is new, but on 32 bits we have relocated the kernel for a long time. kASLR is the first use case of relocating the 64-bit kernel, though.
-hpa
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