| Message ID | 20191210044714.27265-4-dja@axtens.net (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Superseded |
| Headers | show |
| Series | KASAN for powerpc64 radix, plus generic mm change | expand |
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| snowpatch_ozlabs/apply_patch | success | Successfully applied on branch powerpc/merge (42159d2de18ffa66c2714d988a8c162db8b03956) |
| snowpatch_ozlabs/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 21 lines checked |
Le 10/12/2019 à 05:47, Daniel Axtens a écrit : > KASAN is supported on 32-bit powerpc and the docs should reflect this. > > Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> > --- > Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 ++- > Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt > Christophe
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index e4d66e7c50de..4af2b5d2c9b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ global variables yet. Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later. Currently generic KASAN is supported for the x86_64, arm64, xtensa and s390 -architectures, and tag-based KASAN is supported only for arm64. +architectures. It is also supported on 32-bit powerpc kernels. Tag-based KASAN +is supported only on arm64. Usage ----- diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a85ce2ff8244 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +KASAN is supported on powerpc on 32-bit only. + +32 bit support +============== + +KASAN is supported on both hash and nohash MMUs on 32-bit. + +The shadow area sits at the top of the kernel virtual memory space above the +fixmap area and occupies one eighth of the total kernel virtual memory space. + +Instrumentation of the vmalloc area is not currently supported, but modules +are.
KASAN is supported on 32-bit powerpc and the docs should reflect this. Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 ++- Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt