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From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>,
	Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 19/25] arm64: mte: Add PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}MTETAGS support
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:32:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fa5c891-0f4a-c925-679e-94c41a546490@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701171549.GF5191@gaia>

Hi,

On 7/1/20 2:16 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:10:10PM -0300, Luis Machado wrote:
>> I have one point below I wanted to clarify regarding
>> PEEKMTETAGS/POKEMTETAGS.
>>
>> But before that, I've pushed v2 of the MTE series for GDB here:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/users/luisgpm/aarch64-mte-v2
>>
>> That series adds sctlr and gcr registers to the NT_ARM_MTE (still using a
>> dummy value of 0x407) register set. It would be nice if the Linux Kernel and
>> the debuggers were in sync in terms of supporting this new register set. GDB
>> assumes the register set exists if HWCAP2_MTE is there.
>>
>> So, if we want to adjust the register set, we should probably consider doing
>> that now. That prevents the situation where debuggers would need to do
>> another check to confirm NT_ARM_MTE is exported. I'd rather avoid that.
> 
> I'm happy to do this before merging, though we need to agree on the
> semantics.
> 
> Do you need both read and write access? Also wondering whether the

If I recall the previous discussion correctly, Kevin thought access to 
both of these would be interesting to the user. It sounded like having 
read-only access was enough. If so,...

> prctl() value would be a better option than the raw register bits (well,
> not entirely raw, masking out the irrelevant part).

... then exposing the most useful bits to the user would be better, and 
up to you to define.

I can tweak the GDB patches to turn the sctlr and gcr values into flag 
fields. Then GDB can just show those in a more meaningful way. I just 
need to know what the bits would look like.

I'd rather not make these values writable if we don't think there is a 
good use case for it. Better avoid giving developers more knobs than 
they need?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-01 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-24 17:52 [PATCH v5 00/25] arm64: Memory Tagging Extension user-space support Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 01/25] arm64: mte: system register definitions Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 02/25] arm64: mte: CPU feature detection and initial sysreg configuration Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 03/25] arm64: mte: Use Normal Tagged attributes for the linear map Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 04/25] arm64: mte: Add specific SIGSEGV codes Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 05/25] arm64: mte: Handle synchronous and asynchronous tag check faults Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 06/25] mm: Add PG_ARCH_2 page flag Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:33   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 18:36     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-25 17:10       ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-01 17:30     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 07/25] arm64: mte: Clear the tags when a page is mapped in user-space with PROT_MTE Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 08/25] arm64: mte: Tags-aware copy_{user_,}highpage() implementations Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 09/25] arm64: Avoid unnecessary clear_user_page() indirection Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 10/25] arm64: mte: Tags-aware aware memcmp_pages() implementation Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 11/25] mm: Introduce arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:36   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-25 17:34     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 12/25] arm64: mte: Add PROT_MTE support to mmap() and mprotect() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 13/25] mm: Introduce arch_validate_flags() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:37   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 14/25] arm64: mte: Validate the PROT_MTE request via arch_validate_flags() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 15/25] mm: Allow arm64 mmap(PROT_MTE) on RAM-based files Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:42   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 16/25] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 17/25] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the generated random tags " Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 18/25] arm64: mte: Restore the GCR_EL1 register after a suspend Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 19/25] arm64: mte: Add PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}MTETAGS support Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 17:10   ` Luis Machado
2020-07-01 17:16     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-01 17:32       ` Luis Machado [this message]
2020-07-03 13:18         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-03 10:50     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 20/25] fs: Handle intra-page faults in copy_mount_options() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 21/25] mm: Add arch hooks for saving/restoring tags Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:45   ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-25  9:04     ` Steven Price
2020-06-25 12:09       ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 22/25] arm64: mte: Enable swap of tagged pages Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 11:37   ` Steven Price
2020-06-25 11:59     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 23/25] arm64: mte: Save tags when hibernating Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 24/25] arm64: mte: Kconfig entry Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 25/25] arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 12:22   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-06-26 14:54     ` Catalin Marinas

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