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SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 08/11] arm64/kasan: add and use kasan_map_populate()
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On 10/13/2017 08:32 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> During early boot, kasan uses vmemmap_populate() to establish its shadow
> memory. But, that interface is intended for struct pages use.
>
> Because of the current project, vmemmap won't be zeroed during allocation,
> but kasan expects that memory to be zeroed. We are adding a new
> kasan_map_populate() function to resolve this difference.
>
> Therefore, we must use a new interface to allocate and map kasan shadow
> memory, that also zeroes memory for us.
>

What's the point of this patch? We have "arm64: kasan: Avoid using vmemmap_populate to initialise shadow"
which does the right thing and basically reverts this patch.
This patch as intermediate step looks absolutely useless. We can just avoid vemmap_populate() right away.

> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
> index 81f03959a4ab..cb4af2951c90 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,66 @@
>

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