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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
	 Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
	 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gunho.lee@lge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kasan: fix mention for KASAN_HW_TAGS
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:36:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANpmjNMSfVeDa-YC-RQcZ-V=wvHGi43xvXSvaR0GQkEP0OOmOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+Zn49-6R00buq-y_H0qs=4gBh6PBsJDFBptL8=h6GPQYA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 12:15, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 12:12, Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch removes description of the KASAN_HW_TAGS's memory consumption.
> > KASAN_HW_TAGS does not set 1/32nd shadow memory.
>
> The hardware still allocates/uses shadow in MTE.
> Though, it may be 1/16-th, not sure.

I think the point is that it depends on the hardware implementation of
MTE. There are a range of possibilities, but enabling KASAN_HW_TAGS
doesn't consume any extra memory for tags itself if the hardware has
to enable MTE and provision tag space via firmware to begin with.

> > Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>

I think you just have to be a bit clearer in the commit description,
just briefly mentioning how/where the tag space is allocated in
hardware that do support MTE. Then removing this line is probably
fair, if KASAN_HW_TAGS isn't the direct reason for tag memory being
allocated.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-19 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-19 10:12 Chanho Min
2023-06-19 10:14 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2023-06-19 11:36   ` Marco Elver [this message]
2023-06-20 16:32     ` Andrey Konovalov
2023-06-23  7:58       ` [PATCH v2] " Chanho Min
2023-06-23 12:40         ` Andrey Konovalov

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