Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 4 authors, 2022-11-14

Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] Documentation/kasan: Update details of KASAN on powerpc

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2022-11-14 12:50:55


Le 18/05/2022 à 12:07, Paul Mackerras a écrit :
From: Daniel Axtens <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
This change doesn't apply, can you rebase ?

Thanks
Christophe
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---
  Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 7 ++++++-
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 8089c559d339..448995c11bee 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ 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 powerpc for 32-bit kernels and
+for 64-bit kernels running under the Radix MMU. Tag-based KASAN modes are
+supported only for arm64.
  
  Usage
  -----
@@ -351,6 +353,9 @@ 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.
  
+It is optional, except on 64-bit powerpc kernels, and 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.
  
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