Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 2021 20:10:00 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.10 051/120] memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end |
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:07:57PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > > From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> > > > > [ Upstream commit 2dcb3964544177c51853a210b6ad400de78ef17d ] > > > > With kaslr the kernel image is placed at a random place, so starting the > > bottom-up allocation with the kernel_end can result in an allocation > > failure and a warning like this one: > > Not sure if this is ready for stable yet (including stable branches 4.19 > and 5.4), since it seems to uncover latent bugs in x86 early memory > reservation. I asked about this issue here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87ft26yuwg.fsf@manicouagan.localdomain/
If there are fixes for this that get merged, please make sure they get tagged properly to go to the stable trees as well.
thanks,
greg k-h
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