On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 05:18:15AM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > --- /dev/null > +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan_init.c [...] > +#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 > +pud_t kasan_zero_pud[PTRS_PER_PUD] __page_aligned_bss; > +#endif > +#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 > +pmd_t kasan_zero_pmd[PTRS_PER_PMD] __page_aligned_bss; > +#endif > +pte_t kasan_zero_pte[PTRS_PER_PTE] __page_aligned_bss; Is there any problem if you don't add the #ifs here? Wouldn't the linker remove them if they are not used? Original hunk copied here for easy comparison: > -static int __init zero_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, > - unsigned long end) > -{ > - pte_t *pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); > - > - while (addr + PAGE_SIZE <= end) { > - WARN_ON(!pte_none(*pte)); > - set_pte(pte, __pte(__pa_nodebug(kasan_zero_page) > - | __PAGE_KERNEL_RO)); > - addr += PAGE_SIZE; > - pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); > - } > - return 0; > -} [...] > +static void __init zero_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, > + unsigned long end) > +{ > + pte_t *pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); > + pte_t zero_pte; > + > + zero_pte = pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(kasan_zero_page)), PAGE_KERNEL); > + zero_pte = pte_wrprotect(zero_pte); > + > + while (addr + PAGE_SIZE <= end) { > + set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, zero_pte); > + addr += PAGE_SIZE; > + pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); > + } > +} I think there are some differences with the original x86 code. The first one is the use of __pa_nodebug, does it cause any problems if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled? The second is the use of a read-only attribute when mapping kasan_zero_page on x86. Can it cope with a writable mapping? If there are no issues, it should be documented in the commit log. -- Catalin -- 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>