Hi Catalin, On 11/5/20 6:09 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: >> Ah, I got there eventually in patch 38. Too many indirections ;) (I'm >> sure we could have trimmed them down a bit, hw_init_tags == >> arch_init_tags == mte_init_tags). > The idea with these indirections was to make hw_tags.c to not directly > call MTE stuff and abstract away the underlying memory tagging > implementation. We won't know for sure how fitting these abstractions > are before we add another memory tagging implementation though :) >
I agree with Andrey, because in future the sparc architecture might want to support HW KASAN hence keeping a generic infrastructure adds some value. -- Regards, Vincenzo
