On 24/08/15 17:00, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > 2015-08-24 18:44 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>: >> >> Another option would be having "sparse" shadow memory based on page >> extension. I did play with that some time ago based on ideas from >> original v1 KASan support for x86/arm - it is how 614be38 "irqchip: >> gic-v3: Fix out of bounds access to cpu_logical_map" was caught. >> It doesn't require any VA reservations, only some contiguous memory for >> the page_ext itself, which serves as indirection level for the 0-order >> shadow pages. > > We won't be able to use inline instrumentation (I could live with that), > and most importantly, we won't be able to use stack instrumentation. > GCC needs to know shadow address for inline and/or stack instrumentation > to generate correct code. It's definitely a trade-off ;) Just for my understanding does that stack instrumentation is controlled via -asan-stack? Thanks Vladimir > >> In theory such design can be reused by others 32-bit arches and, I >> think, nommu too. Additionally, the shadow pages might be movable with >> help of driver-page migration patch series [1]. >> The cost is obvious - performance drop, although I didn't bother >> measuring it. >> >> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650917/ >> >> Cheers >> Vladimir >> > -- 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