On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Oren Berman <o...@lightbitslabs.com> wrote:
> Now to all of the forum
>
> Hi Dan
>
> Thanks we are going to try this.
>
> Can you explain why this can cause this issue - is the NVDIMM memory space
> also being randomized?
> Is it done during runtime?
>

Yes, kaslr randomizes the direct map. We have seen problems with it in
the past relative to setting up pmem mappings. We fixed one such bug
with this commit:

fc5f9d5f151c x86/mm: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect loop count
calculation in sync_global_pgds()

...but it appears we may have another bug in this area.
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