linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Improve comments around the mem

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Message-ID: <20160509084517.GD4107@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 10:45:17 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, yinghai@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, brgerst@...il.com, hpa@...or.com,
	bhe@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, luto@...capital.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dvlasenk@...hat.com, luto@...nel.org,
	keescook@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Improve comments around the
 mem_avoid[] logic

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 11:36:08PM -0700, tip-bot for Kees Cook wrote:
> Commit-ID:  ed09acde44e301b5c13755ab84821fa44b188b5e
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ed09acde44e301b5c13755ab84821fa44b188b5e
> Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> AuthorDate: Fri, 6 May 2016 12:44:59 -0700
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Sat, 7 May 2016 07:38:38 +0200
> 
> x86/KASLR: Improve comments around the mem_avoid[] logic
> 
> This attempts to improve the comments that describe how the memory
> range used for decompression is avoided. Additionally uses an enum
> instead of raw numbers for the mem_avoid[] indexing.

Just went through the text, looks nice. Thanks for the effort!

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