Re: [PATCH v9 09/12] mm/kasan: kasan specific map populate function

[Pavel Tatashin]

>
> Ok, but I'm still missing why you think that is needed. What would be the
> second page table walker that needs implementing?
>
> I guess we could implement that on arm64 using our current vmemmap_populate
> logic and an explicit memset.
>

Hi Will,

What do you mean by explicit memset()? We can't simply memset() from
start to end without doing the page table walk, because at the time
kasan is calling vmemmap_populate() we have a tmp_pg_dir instead of
swapper_pg_dir.

We could do the explicit memset() after
cpu_replace_ttbr1(lm_alias(swapper_pg_dir)); but again, this was in
one of my previous implementations, and I was asked to replace that.

Pavel