On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 06:23:44PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > Here is the answer: > https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/tools/create-gce-image.sh#L189 > > # rodata=n: mark_rodata_ro becomes very slow with KASAN (lots of PGDs) > > I have some vague memory that there was some debug double checking > that pages are indeed read-only and that debug check was slow, but it > was always executed without rodata=n.
Sounds like debug_checkwx() which is disabled by turning off CONFIG_DEBUG_WX. You could either disable it in your .configs or, provided there's even such an option, disable KASAN checking around it until that one-time boot test completes and then reenable KASAN. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette