[PATCH v4 2/7] mm: kasan: introduce generic kasan_populate_zero_shadow()

[Andrey Ryabinin]

2015-08-10 9:01 GMT+03:00 Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com> writes:
>
>> Introduce generic kasan_populate_zero_shadow(start, end).
>> This function maps kasan_zero_page to the [start, end] addresses.
>>
>> In follow on patches it will be used for ARMv8 (and maybe other
>> architectures) and will replace x86_64 specific populate_zero_shadow().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com>
>
> This assume that we can have shared pgtable_t in generic code ? Is that
> true for generic code ? Even if it is we may want to allow some arch to
> override this ? On ppc64, we store the hardware hash page table slot
> number in pte_t, Hence we won't be able to share pgtable_t.
>

So, ppc64 could define some config which will disable compilation of
mm/kasan/kasan_init.c.
However, it might be a bad idea to use such never defined config symbol now.
So I think this could be done later, in "KASAN for powerpc" series.

>
>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c |  14 ----
>>  include/linux/kasan.h       |   8 +++
>>  mm/kasan/Makefile           |   2 +-
>>  mm/kasan/kasan_init.c       | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 mm/kasan/kasan_init.c
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c
>> index e1840f3..812086c 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c
>> @@ -12,20 +12,6 @@
>>  extern pgd_t early_level4_pgt[PTRS_PER_PGD];
>>  extern struct range pfn_mapped[E820_X_MAX];
>>
>> -static pud_t kasan_zero_pud[PTRS_PER_PUD] __page_aligned_bss;
>> -static pmd_t kasan_zero_pmd[PTRS_PER_PMD] __page_aligned_bss;
>> -static pte_t kasan_zero_pte[PTRS_PER_PTE] __page_aligned_bss;
>> -
>> -/*
>
> -aneesh
>