linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] xen: fix hvm guest with kaslr enabled

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Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:03:54 +0100
From:   Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <x86@...nel.org>
CC:     <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
        <tglx@...utronix.de>, <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] xen: fix hvm guest with kaslr enabled

On 28/07/17 11:23, Juergen Gross wrote:
> A Xen HVM guest running with KASLR enabled will die rather soon today
> due to the shared info page mapping is using va() too early. This was

As a minor grammar issue, either s/due to/because/ or s/mapping is
using/mapping using/

~Andrew

> introduced by commit a5d5f328b0e2baa5ee7c119fd66324eb79eeeb66 ("xen:
> allocate page for shared info page from low memory").