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    x86: introduce kaslr_offset() · 4545c898
    Jiri Kosina authored
    Offset that has been chosen for kaslr during kernel decompression can be
    easily computed as a difference between _text and __START_KERNEL. We are
    already making use of this in dump_kernel_offset() notifier and in
    arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo().
    
    Introduce kaslr_offset() that makes this computation instead of hard-coding
    it, so that other kernel code (such as live patching) can make use of it.
    Also convert existing users to make use of it.
    
    This patch is equivalent transofrmation without any effects on the resulting
    code:
    
    	$ diff -u vmlinux.old.asm vmlinux.new.asm
    	--- vmlinux.old.asm     2015-04-28 17:55:19.520983368 +0200
    	+++ vmlinux.new.asm     2015-04-28 17:55:24.141206072 +0200
    	@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
    
    	-vmlinux.old:     file format elf64-x86-64
    	+vmlinux.new:     file format elf64-x86-64
    
    	Disassembly of section .text:
    	$
    Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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