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From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, urezki@gmail.com,
	kees@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>,
	ljs@kernel.org, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, vbabka@kernel.org,
	rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
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	kprateek.nayak@amd.com, tglx@kernel.org,
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	ryan.roberts@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] vmalloc: add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN support
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:57:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260429102704.680174-2-dev.jain@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260429102704.680174-1-dev.jain@arm.com>

From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>

For allocations that will be accessed only with match-all pointers
(e.g., kernel stacks), setting tags is wasted work. If the caller
already set __GFP_SKIP_KASAN, skip tag setting of vmalloc pages.

Before this patch, __GFP_SKIP_KASAN wasn't being used with vmalloc
APIs. So it wasn't being checked. Now its being checked and acted
upon. Other KASAN modes are unchanged because __GFP_SKIP_KASAN is
ignored for them in the page allocator, and in vmalloc too we ignore
this flag for them.

This is a preparatory patch for optimizing kernel stack allocations.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
 include/linux/gfp_types.h |  6 +++---
 mm/vmalloc.c              | 13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp_types.h b/include/linux/gfp_types.h
index 6c75df30a281d..c2bd723c8ec62 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp_types.h
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ enum {
  *
  * %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN makes KASAN skip unpoisoning on page allocation.
  * Used for userspace and vmalloc pages; the latter are unpoisoned by
- * kasan_unpoison_vmalloc instead. For userspace pages, results in
- * poisoning being skipped as well, see should_skip_kasan_poison for
- * details. Only effective in HW_TAGS mode.
+ * kasan_unpoison_vmalloc instead. If passed to vmalloc, kasan_unpoison_vmalloc
+ * is skipped too. For userspace pages, results in poisoning being skipped as
+ * well, see should_skip_kasan_poison for details. Only effective in HW_TAGS mode.
  */
 #define __GFP_NOWARN	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOWARN)
 #define __GFP_COMP	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index aa08651ec0df6..708ccac293cef 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3939,7 +3939,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 				__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO |\
 				__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |\
 				GFP_NOFS | GFP_NOIO | GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT |\
-				GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
+				GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP | __GFP_SKIP_KASAN)
 
 static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
 {
@@ -3980,6 +3980,9 @@ static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
  *
  * %__GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failure messages.
  *
+ * %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN can be used to skip unpoisoning of mapped pages
+ * (when prot=%PAGE_KERNEL).
+ *
  * Can not be called from interrupt nor NMI contexts.
  * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure
  */
@@ -3993,6 +3996,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 	kasan_vmalloc_flags_t kasan_flags = KASAN_VMALLOC_NONE;
 	unsigned long original_align = align;
 	unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT;
+	bool skip_vmalloc_kasan = kasan_hw_tags_enabled() && (gfp_mask & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN);
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!size))
 		return NULL;
@@ -4023,7 +4027,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 again:
 	area = __get_vm_area_node(size, align, shift, VM_ALLOC |
 				  VM_UNINITIALIZED | vm_flags, start, end, node,
-				  gfp_mask, caller);
+				  gfp_mask & ~__GFP_SKIP_KASAN, caller);
 	if (!area) {
 		bool nofail = gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL;
 		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
@@ -4041,7 +4045,7 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 	 * kasan_unpoison_vmalloc().
 	 */
 	if (pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL)) {
-		if (kasan_hw_tags_enabled()) {
+		if (kasan_hw_tags_enabled() && !skip_vmalloc_kasan) {
 			/*
 			 * Modify protection bits to allow tagging.
 			 * This must be done before mapping.
@@ -4078,7 +4082,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 	    (gfp_mask & __GFP_SKIP_ZERO))
 		kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_INIT;
 	/* KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL already set if required. */
-	area->addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(area->addr, size, kasan_flags);
+	if (!skip_vmalloc_kasan)
+		area->addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(area->addr, size, kasan_flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * In this function, newly allocated vm_struct has VM_UNINITIALIZED
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-29 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-29 10:27 [PATCH v4 0/3] kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables Dev Jain
2026-04-29 10:27 ` Dev Jain [this message]
2026-04-29 14:42   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] vmalloc: add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN support Catalin Marinas
2026-04-29 10:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacks Dev Jain
2026-04-29 14:43   ` Catalin Marinas
2026-04-29 10:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: skip KASAN tagging for page-allocated page tables Dev Jain

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