Re: [PATCH] kasan: default to inline instrumentation

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 4:51 PM Paul Heidekrüger
<paul.heidekrueger@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KASan inline instrumentation can yield up to a 2x performance gain at
> the cost of a larger binary.
>
> Make inline instrumentation the default, as suggested in the bug report
> below.
>
> When an architecture does not support inline instrumentation, it should
> set ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE, as done by PowerPC, for instance.
>
> CC: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203495
> Signed-off-by: Paul Heidekrüger <paul.heidekrueger@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index fdca89c05745..935eda08b1e1 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ endchoice
>  choice
>         prompt "Instrumentation type"
>         depends on KASAN_GENERIC || KASAN_SW_TAGS
> -       default KASAN_OUTLINE
> +       default KASAN_INLINE if !ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE
>
>  config KASAN_OUTLINE
>         bool "Outline instrumentation"
> --
> 2.40.1
>

Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for taking care of this!