mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation
authorAndrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:40:03 +0000 (14:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Sat, 14 Feb 2015 05:21:42 +0000 (21:21 -0800)
commit71394fe50146202f2c8d92cf50f5ebc761acf254
tree8c80ad354cded80e92a1594e8786e6f89a7ece2e
parentc420f167db8c799d69fe43a801c58a7f02e9d57c
mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation

For instrumenting global variables KASan will shadow memory backing memory
for modules.  So on module loading we will need to allocate memory for
shadow and map it at address in shadow that corresponds to the address
allocated in module_alloc().

__vmalloc_node_range() could be used for this purpose, except it puts a
guard hole after allocated area.  Guard hole in shadow memory should be a
problem because at some future point we might need to have a shadow memory
at address occupied by guard hole.  So we could fail to allocate shadow
for module_alloc().

Add a new vm_struct flag 'VM_NO_GUARD' indicating that vm area doesn't
have a guard hole.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
include/linux/vmalloc.h
mm/vmalloc.c