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Sometimes the kernel fails to boot with: "The Linux kernel failed to boot with the KernelAddressSanitizer: out of memory during initialisation" even with big amounts of memory when both kaslr and kasan are enabled. The problem is that kasan initialization code requires 1/8 of physical memory plus some for page tables. To keep as much code instrumented as possible kasan avoids using memblock for memory allocations. Instead kasan uses trivial memory allocator which simply chops off the memory from the end of online physical memory. For that reason when kaslr is enabled together with kasan avoid positioning kernel into upper memory region which would be utilized during kasan initialization. Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.