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Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 14:31:14 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/27] x86/acpi: Adapt assembly for PIE support

On Fri 2018-05-25 10:00:04, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:14 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu 2018-05-24 09:35:42, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:03 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed 2018-05-23 12:54:03, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > > > > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols
> for
> > > the
> > > > > kernel to be PIE compatible.
> > > > >
> > > > > Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to
> extended the
> > > > > KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.
> > >
> > > > What testing did this get?
> > >
> > > Tested boot, hibernation and performance on qemu and dedicated machine.
> 
> > Well, this is suspend, not hibernation code.
> 
> > So "sudo pm-suspend" or "echo mem > /sys/power/state" would be good
> > way to test this.
> 
> Thanks, it worked. I added this to the testsuite I use for KASLR.

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