[PATCH RFC v2 12/21] kasan: inline and rename kasan_unpoison_memory

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:36 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:19 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently kasan_unpoison_memory() is used as both an external annotation
> > and as internal memory poisoning helper. Rename external annotation to
> > kasan_unpoison_data() and inline the internal helper for for hardware
> > tag-based mode to avoid undeeded function calls.
> >
> > There's the external annotation kasan_unpoison_slab() that is currently
> > defined as static inline and uses kasan_unpoison_memory(). With this
> > change it's turned into a function call. Overall, this results in the
> > same number of calls for hardware tag-based mode as
> > kasan_unpoison_memory() is now inlined.
>
> Can't we leave kasan_unpoison_slab as is? Or there are other reasons
> to uninline it?

Just to have cleaner kasan.h callbacks definitions.

> It seems that uninling it is orthogonal to the rest of this patch.

I can split it out into a separate patch if you think this makes sense?