From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
To: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeHK+xuGRzkLdrfGZVo-RVfkH31qUrNdBaPd4k5ffMKHWGfTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210106115519.32222-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:56 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
>
> MTE provides an asynchronous mode for detecting tag exceptions. In
> particular instead of triggering a fault the arm64 core updates a
> register which is checked by the kernel at the first entry after the tag
> exception has occurred.
>
> Add support for MTE asynchronous mode.
>
> The exception handling mechanism will be added with a future patch.
>
> Note: KASAN HW activates async mode via kasan.mode kernel parameter.
> The default mode is set to synchronous.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> index 24a273d47df1..5d992e16b420 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> @@ -153,8 +153,35 @@ void mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag)
>
> void mte_enable_kernel(enum kasan_arg_mode mode)
> {
> - /* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
> - sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
> + const char *m;
> +
> + /* Preset parameter values based on the mode. */
> + switch (mode) {
> + case KASAN_ARG_MODE_OFF:
> + return;
> + case KASAN_ARG_MODE_LIGHT:
> + /* Enable MTE Async Mode for EL1. */
> + sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_ASYNC);
> + m = "asynchronous";
> + break;
> + case KASAN_ARG_MODE_DEFAULT:
> + case KASAN_ARG_MODE_PROD:
> + case KASAN_ARG_MODE_FULL:
> + /* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
> + sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
> + m = "synchronous";
> + break;
> + default:
> + /*
> + * kasan mode should be always set hence we should
> + * not reach this condition.
> + */
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + pr_info_once("MTE: enabled in %s mode at EL1\n", m);
> +
> isb();
> }
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>
Hi Vincenzo,
It would be cleaner to pass a bool to mte_enable_kernel() and have it
indicate sync/async mode. This way you don't have to pull all these
KASAN constants into the arm64 code.
Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-06 11:55 [PATCH 0/4] arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] kasan, arm64: Add KASAN light mode Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-07 16:29 ` Andrey Konovalov [this message]
2021-01-07 17:29 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-07 19:18 ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-01-08 10:48 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-08 13:36 ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-01-08 17:26 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 11:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: mte: Enable async tag check fault Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 15:01 ` kernel test robot
2021-01-06 11:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: mte: Optimize mte_assign_mem_tag_range() Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 16:35 ` [PATCH 0/4] arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support Vincenzo Frascino
2021-01-06 16:42 ` Will Deacon
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