From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.axis.com ([195.60.68.17]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1o7DW1-0040Sl-3Z for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:04:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 12:04:41 +0200 From: Vincent Whitchurch Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] UML: add support for KASAN under x86_64 Message-ID: <20220701100441.GA8082@axis.com> References: <20220630080834.2742777-1-davidgow@google.com> <20220630080834.2742777-2-davidgow@google.com> <20220630125434.GA20153@axis.com> <20220701091653.GA7009@axis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: David Gow Cc: Andrey Konovalov , Dmitry Vyukov , Johannes Berg , Patricia Alfonso , Jeff Dike , Richard Weinberger , "anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com" , Brendan Higgins , Andrew Morton , Andrey Ryabinin , kasan-dev , "linux-um@lists.infradead.org" , LKML , Daniel Latypov , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "kunit-dev@googlegroups.com" On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 05:43:26PM +0800, David Gow wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 5:16 PM Vincent Whitchurch > wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 11:08:27AM +0200, David Gow wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:29 PM Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > > > Stack trace collection code might trigger KASAN splats when walking > > > > stack frames, but this can be resolved by using unchecked accesses. > > > > The main reason to disable instrumentation here is for performance > > > > reasons, see the upcoming patch for arm64 [1] for some details. > > > > > > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/commit/?id=802b91118d11 > > > > > > Ah -- that does it! Using READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() in dump_trace() gets rid > > > of the nasty recursive KASAN failures we were getting in the tests. > > > > > > I'll send out v5 with those files instrumented again. > > > > Hmm, do we really want that? In the patch Andrey linked to above he > > removed the READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() and added the KASAN_SANITIZE on the > > corresponding files for arm64, just like it's already the case in this > > patch for UML. > > Personally, I'm okay with the performance overhead so far: in my tests > with a collection of ~350 KUnit tests, the total difference in runtime > was about ~.2 seconds, and was within the margin of error caused by > fluctuations in the compilation time. > > As an example, without the stacktrace code instrumented: > [17:36:50] Testing complete. Passed: 364, Failed: 0, Crashed: 0, > Skipped: 47, Errors: 0 > [17:36:50] Elapsed time: 15.114s total, 0.003s configuring, 8.518s > building, 6.433s running > > versus with it instrumented: > [17:35:40] Testing complete. Passed: 364, Failed: 0, Crashed: 0, > Skipped: 47, Errors: 0 > [17:35:40] Elapsed time: 15.497s total, 0.003s configuring, 8.691s > building, 6.640s running OK, good to know. > That being said, I'm okay with disabling it again and adding a comment > if it's slow enough in some other usecase to cause problems (or even > just be annoying). That could either be done in a v6 of this patchset, > or a follow-up patch, depending on what people would prefer. But I'd > not have a problem with leaving it instrumented for now. I don't have any strong opinion either way either, so you don't have to change it back on my account. Thanks. _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um