Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> writes: >> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void mem_avoid_memmap(char *str) >> i++; >> } >> >> - /* More than 4 memmaps, fail kaslr */ >> + /* Can't store all regions, fail kaslr */ >> if ((i >= MAX_MEMMAP_REGIONS) && str) >> memmap_too_large = true; >> } >> -- > > Lemme add some of the folks from > f28442497b5caf7bf573ade22a7f8d3559e3ef56 to Cc. > > It all looks arbitrary to me: first 4 unusable memmap regions, this > patch raises it to 16. Why are we even imposing such a limit?
Because at this point, we are not in a good position to handle an unlimited amount of regions. As for the choice of "16", I took our usecase and multiplied it by two. FWIW, this could be even larger. Julian
