[PATCH v2 5/5] arm64: add KASan support

From: a.ryabinin@samsung.com (Andrey Ryabinin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] arm64: add KASan support
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:13:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A8FF63.70505@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150716160313.GC26865@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On 07/16/2015 07:03 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:30:11PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>>
>> I think this may work, if pud_none(*pud) will be replaced with !pud_val(*pud).
>> We can't use pud_none() because with 2-level page tables it's always false, so
>> we will never go down to pmd level where swapper_pg_dir populated.
> 
> The reason I used "do ... while" vs "while" or "for" is so that it gets
> down to the pmd level. The iteration over pgd is always done in the top
> loop via pgd_addr_end while the loops for missing levels (nopud, nopmd)
> are always a single iteration whether we check for pud_none or not. But
> when the level is present, we avoid looping when !pud_none().
> 

Right, dunno what I was thinking.
It seems to work. Lightly tested with every possible CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.