linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] arm64: kaslr cleanups and improvements

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:38:40 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	will.deacon@....com, mark.rutland@....com, james.morse@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] arm64: kaslr cleanups and improvements

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:09:40PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Ard Biesheuvel (8):
>   arm64: kernel: don't export local symbols from head.S
>   arm64: kernel: use literal for relocated address of
>     __secondary_switched
>   arm64: kernel: perform relocation processing from ID map
>   arm64: introduce mov_q macro to move a constant into a 64-bit register
>   arm64: kernel: replace early 64-bit literal loads with move-immediates
>   arm64: don't map TEXT_OFFSET bytes below the kernel if we can avoid it
>   arm64: relocatable: deal with physically misaligned kernel images
>   arm64: kaslr: increase randomization granularity

I went through these patches and there is indeed a nice clean-up. The
increased KASLR granularity also looks fine. So, for the series:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>