Re: [PATCH v11 1/6] kasan: allow an architecture to disable inline instrumentation

Michael Ellerman
2021-03-22T11:08:22Z

Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> writes:
> Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 01:40:53AM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>>> For annoying architectural reasons, it's very difficult to support inline
>>> instrumentation on powerpc64.
>>
>> I think we can expand here and talk about how in hash mode, the vmalloc
>> address space is in a region of memory different than where kernel virtual
>> addresses are mapped. Did I recollect the reason correctly?
>
> I think that's _a_ reason, but for radix mode (which is all I support at
> the moment), the reason is a bit simpler.

Actually Aneesh fixed that in:

0034d395f89d ("powerpc/mm/hash64: Map all the kernel regions in the same 0xc range")

The problem we had prior to that was that the linear mapping was at
(0xc << 60), vmalloc was at (0xd << 60), and vmemap was at (0xf << 60).

Meaning our shadow region would need to be more than (3 << 60) in size.

cheers