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[PATCH v10 4/6] kasan: Document support on 32-bit powerpc

From: Daniel Axtens <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-03 12:01:45
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: documentation, documentation process, kasan, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Andrey Ryabinin, Linus Torvalds

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

Document s390 support while we're at it.

Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <redacted>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst |  7 +++++--
 Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt   | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 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 e022b7506e37..9cfc116cc6bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
 Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang.
 
 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
 -----
@@ -332,7 +333,9 @@ CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 With ``CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC``, KASAN can cover vmalloc space at the
-cost of greater memory usage. Currently this is only supported on x86.
+cost of greater memory usage. Currently this supported on x86, 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.
-- 
2.27.0
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