On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 01:39:16PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 12:34 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So if ALLOC_TAG_REF_WIDTH is big enough, it's going to force last_cpupid > > into struct page. > > Thanks for taking a look! > Yes, but how is this field different from say KASAN_TAG_WIDTH which > can also force last_cpupid out of page flags? Because KASAN isn't for production use? > > That will misalign struct page and disable HVO -- with no warning! > > mminit_verify_pageflags_layout already has a mminit_dprintk() to > indicate this condition. Is that not enough? Fair.
