Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] khwasan: kernel hardware assisted address sanitizer
From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Thu Jun 28 2018 - 14:26:48 EST
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:59:00 -0700 Vishwath Mohan <vishwath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yeah, I can confirm that it's an issue. Like Kostya mentioned, I don't have
>> data on-hand, but anecdotally both ASAN and KASAN have proven problematic
>> to enable for environments that don't tolerate the increased memory
>> pressure well. This includes,
>> (a) Low-memory form factors - Wear, TV, Things, lower-tier phones like Go
>> (c) Connected components like Pixel's visual core
>> <https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/>
>>
>>
>> These are both places I'd love to have a low(er) memory footprint option at
>> my disposal.
>
> Thanks.
>
> It really is important that such information be captured in the
> changelogs. In as much detail as can be mustered.
I'll add it to the changelog in v5. Thanks!