ANDROID: gki_defconfig: enable CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
Enable in-kernel MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) support via
CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS=y. With this change in-kernel MTE will be
auto-enabled during boot on hardware that supports MTE.
Currently, in-kernel MTE is only supported for slab and page_alloc
allocations. Future changes might include support for vmalloc, stack,
and globals.
By default:
- MTE works in synchronous mode, which means that tag faults are be
reported at the point of occurence.
- When a tag fault is detected, a report is printed into the kernel log.
Only the first tag fault gets reported. No panic occurs unless either
kasan.fault=panic or panic_on_warn is set.
- A report contains the accessed address and a stack trace. There are no
alloc/free stack traces for the accessed page or slab object
(as specified via CONFIG_CMDLINE).
These defaults can be overridden via command line parameters, see
Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
Using kasan=off command line parameter will turn in-kernel MTE off.
A performance impact of ~10% is expected, but there is no MTE-enabled
hardware yet to run benchmarks. A future change of integrating in-kernel
MTE with init_on_alloc/free might significantly bring down the perfomance
impact.
There is no performance impact when in-kernel MTE is disabled via command
line or when hardware without MTE support (pre-ARMv8.5) is in use. There
is still a side-effect of TTBR1 TBI (Top Byte Ignore) getting enabled.
Signed-off-by:
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Bug: 172318110
Change-Id: I3d7fe6d41f916553b0bcad6402d4e373a7cd75cd
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