Skip to content

x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt

Baoquan He linux-doc lkml 1 version In review

Get series with b4
b4 am [email protected]

Versions newest first

  1. v1 Latest3 patches 11 repliesIn review

v2->v3 from the cover letter

Ingo helped to prettify the patch log and code comment, repost them after updating accordign to Ingo's suggestions.

Patches in v1 No applies recorded yet

#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/3x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE descriptionarch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h+9 -60 replies
2/3x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptionsDocumentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt+42 -420 replies
3/3x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at the end of fileDocumentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt+55 -90 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

None of the 3 patches has a Reviewed-by or Acked-by of their own; the series has one for all of them.

PatchBaoquan He
SeriesR-b
1/3
2/3
3/3

Trailers given in replies are filled; those carried in the patches from earlier versions are outlined with dashes.

Read the v1 thread

Cover letter [PATCH 0/3] x86/mm/doc: Clean up mm.txt

This clean up is suggested by Ingo.

It firstly fix the confusions in mm layout tables by unifying each memory region description in the consistent style.

Secondly take the KASLR words out of the mm layout tables to make it as a separate section to only list mm layout in non-KASLR case. Then add KASLR document at the end of mm.txt.

Meanwhile update description about KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE in arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h .

v2->v3:
Ingo helped to prettify the patch log and code comment, repost them after updating accordign to Ingo's suggestions.

v1->v2:

Resend v2 since some typo and incorrect descriptions found in v1 post.

Baoquan He (3):
x86/KASLR: Update KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE description x86/mm/doc: Clean up the memory region layout descriptions x86/doc/kaslr.txt: Create a separate part of document abourt KASLR at
the end of file

 Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt      | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h |  15 ++--
 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
Signature · 1 line
2.13.6