On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:36 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:19 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Currently kasan_unpoison_memory() is used as both an external annotation > > and as internal memory poisoning helper. Rename external annotation to > > kasan_unpoison_data() and inline the internal helper for for hardware > > tag-based mode to avoid undeeded function calls. > > > > There's the external annotation kasan_unpoison_slab() that is currently > > defined as static inline and uses kasan_unpoison_memory(). With this > > change it's turned into a function call. Overall, this results in the > > same number of calls for hardware tag-based mode as > > kasan_unpoison_memory() is now inlined. > > Can't we leave kasan_unpoison_slab as is? Or there are other reasons > to uninline it? Just to have cleaner kasan.h callbacks definitions. > It seems that uninling it is orthogonal to the rest of this patch. I can split it out into a separate patch if you think this makes sense?