> * - as mentioned in the cover letter, a lot of problems could've been > solved if we pre-allocate the metadata pages at boot time so that for > every two contiguous physical pages their metadata pages are also > contiguous. > I haven't come up with a good idea about how to implement that. > Suggestions are very welcome. I think I have a working solution now that doesn't require __GFP_NO_KMSAN_SHADOW. I'll drop this patch from the series.