We used to read several bytes of the shadow memory in advance. Therefore additional shadow memory mapped to prevent crash if speculative load would happen near the end of the mapped shadow memory. Now we don't have such speculative loads, so we no longer need to map additional shadow memory. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c index 687a358a3733..81f03959a4ab 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c @@ -191,14 +191,8 @@ void __init kasan_init(void) if (start >= end) break; - /* - * end + 1 here is intentional. We check several shadow bytes in - * advance to slightly speed up fastpath. In some rare cases - * we could cross boundary of mapped shadow, so we just map - * some more here. - */ vmemmap_populate((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start), - (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end) + 1, + (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end), pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(start))); } -- 2.13.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
