[PATCH v11 4/6] kasan: Document support on 32-bit powerpc

Daniel Axtens
2021-03-19T14:41:37Z

KASAN is supported on 32-bit powerpc and the docs should reflect this.

Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 8 ++++++--
Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index a8c3e0cff88d..2cfd5d9068c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Both software KASAN modes work with SLUB and SLAB memory allocators,
while the hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports SLUB.

Currently, generic KASAN is supported for the x86_64, arm, arm64, xtensa, s390,
-and riscv architectures, and tag-based KASAN modes are supported only for arm64.
+and riscv architectures. It is also supported on 32-bit powerpc kernels.
+Tag-based KASAN modes are supported only for arm64.

Usage
-----
@@ -334,7 +335,10 @@ CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC

With ``CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC``, KASAN can cover vmalloc space at the
cost of greater memory usage. Currently, this is supported on x86,
-riscv, s390, and powerpc.
+riscv, s390, and 32-bit powerpc.
+
+It is optional, except on 32-bit powerpc kernels with module support,
+where it is required.

This works by hooking into vmalloc and vmap and dynamically
allocating real shadow memory to back the mappings.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..26bb0e8bb18c
--- /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 optional, unless built with modules,
+in which case it is required.
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2.27.0