[PATCH RFC v2 14/27] arm64: mte: Disable dynamic tag storage management if HW KASAN is enabled

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Fri Nov 24 11:54:12 PST 2023


On 19.11.23 17:57, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> To be able to reserve the tag storage associated with a page requires that
> the tag storage page can be migrated.
> 
> When HW KASAN is enabled, the kernel allocates pages, which are now tagged,
> in non-preemptible contexts, which can make reserving the associate tag
> storage impossible.

I assume that it's the only in-kernel user that actually requires tagged 
memory (besides for user space), correct?

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb




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