On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM Baoquan He <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I also wonder if we should keep this kasan=off functionality > > conservative and limit it to x86 and arm64 (since these are the only > > two tested architectures). > > We may not need to do that. I tested on arm64 because it has sw_tags and > hw_tags. And if x86_64 and arm64 works well with kasan=off in generic > mode, it should be fine on other architectures. I am a little more > familiar with operations on x86/arm64 than others. I can manage to get > power system to test kasan=off in generic mode, if that is required. > From my side, I would like to see x86_64/arm64/s390/power to have > kasan=off because RHEL support these architectures. I need consult people > to make clear how to change in s390. Will post patch later or ask other > people to help do that. > > While there seems to be no reason we don't let other arch-es have this > benefit if the underlying code has paved the way, the arch side only needs > two lines of judgement code. Personal opinion.
OK, but it would be great if the arch maintainers could review and test the changes.
