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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] arm64: improve efficiency of setting tags for user pages
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 19:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210604183157.GA3843@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210603200308.2a08d25db0dc92430a545b4c@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 08:03:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed,  2 Jun 2021 16:52:26 -0700 Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently we can end up touching PROT_MTE user pages twice on fault
> > and once on unmap. On fault, with KASAN disabled we first clear data
> > and then set tags to 0, and with KASAN enabled we simultaneously
> > clear data and set tags to the KASAN random tag, and then set tags
> > again to 0. On unmap, we poison the page by setting tags, but this
> > is less likely to find a bug than poisoning kernel pages.
> > 
> > This patch series fixes these inefficiencies by only touching the pages
> > once on fault using the DC GZVA instruction to clear both data and
> > tags, and avoiding poisoning user pages on free.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >  arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h   |  6 +--
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h    |  4 ++
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h   | 10 +++--
> >  arch/arm64/lib/mte.S            | 20 ++++++++++
> >  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c           | 26 +++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S            | 10 +++--
> >  arch/ia64/include/asm/page.h    |  6 +--
> >  arch/m68k/include/asm/page_no.h |  6 +--
> >  arch/s390/include/asm/page.h    |  6 +--
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/page.h     |  6 +--
> >  include/linux/gfp.h             | 18 +++++++--
> >  include/linux/highmem.h         | 43 ++++++++-------------
> >  include/linux/kasan.h           | 64 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  include/linux/page-flags.h      |  9 +++++
> >  include/trace/events/mmflags.h  |  9 ++++-
> >  mm/kasan/common.c               |  4 +-
> >  mm/kasan/hw_tags.c              | 32 ++++++++++++++++
> >  mm/mempool.c                    |  6 ++-
> >  mm/page_alloc.c                 | 66 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
> >  19 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
> 
> This is more MMish than ARMish, but I expect it will get more exposure
> in an ARM tree than in linux-next alone.
> 
> I'll grab them for now, but in the hope that they will appear in -next
> via an ARM tree so I get to drop them again.

Sure thing, I'll queue this in a sec...

Peter -- please cc me on patches touching arch/arm64 in future, that way I
won't miss anything (or at least, you can yell at me if I do!).

Cheers,

Will


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-04 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 23:52 [PATCH v6 0/4] arm64: improve efficiency of setting tags for user pages Peter Collingbourne
2021-06-02 23:52 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] mm: arch: remove indirection level in alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() Peter Collingbourne
2021-06-04  9:45   ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-02 23:52 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] kasan: use separate (un)poison implementation for integrated init Peter Collingbourne
2021-06-02 23:52 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] arm64: mte: handle tags zeroing at page allocation time Peter Collingbourne
2021-06-02 23:52 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] kasan: disable freed user page poisoning with HW tags Peter Collingbourne
2021-06-04  3:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] arm64: improve efficiency of setting tags for user pages Andrew Morton
2021-06-04 18:31   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2021-06-04 19:48 ` Will Deacon

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