[PATCH v2 1/3] x86/KASLR: Update document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE

From: Baoquan He
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 19:58:38 EST


Currently CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y is default set, update the relevant
document about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 6afac386a434..2288ceabdb9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
@@ -61,9 +61,10 @@
/*
* Kernel image size is limited to 1GiB due to the fixmap living in the
* next 1GiB (see level2_kernel_pgt in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S). Use
- * 512MiB by default, leaving 1.5GiB for modules once the page tables
- * are fully set up. If kernel ASLR is configured, it can extend the
- * kernel page table mapping, reducing the size of the modules area.
+ * 1 GiB by default, leaving 1 GiB for modules once the page tables are
+ * fully set up. If kernel ASLR is not configured, it can shrink the
+ * kernel page table mapping to decrease the size of kernel area to 512
+ * MiB, increase the size of the modules area to 1.5 GiB.
*/
#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
#define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024)
--
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