[RFC/PATCH -next 00/21] Address sanitizer for kernel (kasan) - dynamic memory error detector.

Christoph Lameter cl at gentwo.org
Mon Jul 14 08:13:56 PDT 2014


On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> > How does that work when memory is sparsely populated?
> >
>
> Sparsemem configurations currently may not work with kasan.
> I suppose I will have to move shadow area to vmalloc address space and
> make it (shadow) sparse too if needed.

Well it seems to work with sparsemem / vmemmap? So non vmmemmapped configs
of sparsemem only. vmemmmap can also handle holes in memory.




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