Re: [PATCH] kasan: fix mention for KASAN_HW_TAGS

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 12:12, Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch removes description of the KASAN_HW_TAGS's memory consumption.
> KASAN_HW_TAGS does not set 1/32nd shadow memory.

The hardware still allocates/uses shadow in MTE.
Though, it may be 1/16-th, not sure.

> Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index fdca89c05745..5be1740234b9 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ config KASAN_HW_TAGS
>           Supported only on arm64 CPUs starting from ARMv8.5 and relies on
>           Memory Tagging Extension and Top Byte Ignore.
>
> -         Consumes about 1/32nd of available memory.
> -
>           May potentially introduce problems related to pointer casting and
>           comparison, as it embeds a tag into the top byte of each pointer.
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>