On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2018 03:14 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> >> wrote: >>> Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that we should ignore *all* accesses to >>> !slab memory. >> >> So you mean we need to find a way to ignore accesses via pointers >> returned by page_address(), but still check accesses through all other >> pointers tagged with 0xFF? I don't see an obvious way to do this. I'm >> open to suggestions though. >> > > I'm saying that we need to ignore accesses to slab objects if pointer > to slab object obtained via page_address() + offset_in_page() trick, but > don't ignore > anything else. > > So, save tag somewhere in page struct and poison shadow with that tag. Make > page_address() to > return tagged address for all !PageSlab() pages. For PageSlab() pages > page_address() should return > 0xff tagged address, so we could ignore such accesses.
Which pages do you mean by !PageSlab()? The ones that are allocated and freed by pagealloc, but mot managed by the slab allocator? Perhaps we should then add tagging to the pagealloc hook instead? _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
