linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 3/8] x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp

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Message-ID: <20181018055644.GG1885@192.168.1.4>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:56:44 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, msys.mizuma@...il.com,
        indou.takao@...fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/8] x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to dig out RSDP
 from EFI table

On 10/18/18 at 01:54pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:35:39PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> >On 10/17/18 at 06:20pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> >> There is a bug that kaslr may randomly choose some positions
> >> which are located in movable memory regions. This will break memory
> >> hotplug feature and make the movable memory chosen by KASLR can't be
> >> removed. So dig SRAT table from ACPI tables to get memory information.
> >
> >This patch is only adding a function efi_get_rsdp_addr() which will be
> >used in later patch. Do we need to describe bug here?
> 
> Yes, it's the first mail of this serial, so I add more log.

patch 3/8?