Re: [PATCH v10 00/22] kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Nov 07 2018 - 10:56:25 EST


On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would like the patches that touch code under arch/arm64/ to be reviewed by
> somebody from the arm64 community. Since the core parts have already been
> reviewed, I was suggesting that you could split them out so that they are
> not blocked by the architecture code. Is it not possible to preserve the
> existing KASAN behaviour for arm64 with the core parts merged? I figured it
> must be, since you're not touching any other architectures here and they
> assumedly continue to function correctly.

It's possible to split out the core mm part, but it doesn't make much
sense to merge it separately from the arm64 changes.

> However, if you'd rather keep everything together, please can we give it a
> couple of weeks so we can at least get the architecture bits reviewed? Most
> people are out at LPC next week (and I'm at another conference this week).

OK, sounds good!

Catalin, could you take a look at the arm64 specific changes?