From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=none Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ECEC6; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288502F4; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from raptor (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4905E3F6C4; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:07:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:07:24 +0000 From: Alexandru Elisei To: David Hildenbrand Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev, maz@kernel.org, james.morse@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, arnd@arndb.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, bristot@redhat.com, vschneid@redhat.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, hughd@google.com, pcc@google.com, steven.price@arm.com, anshuman.khandual@arm.com, vincenzo.frascino@arm.com, eugenis@google.com, kcc@google.com, hyesoo.yu@samsung.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 14/27] arm64: mte: Disable dynamic tag storage management if HW KASAN is enabled Message-ID: References: <20231119165721.9849-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com> <20231119165721.9849-15-alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Hi, On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 08:54:12PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 19.11.23 17:57, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > > To be able to reserve the tag storage associated with a page requires that > > the tag storage page can be migrated. > > > > When HW KASAN is enabled, the kernel allocates pages, which are now tagged, > > in non-preemptible contexts, which can make reserving the associate tag > > storage impossible. > > I assume that it's the only in-kernel user that actually requires tagged > memory (besides for user space), correct? Indeed, this is the case. I'll expand the commit message to be more clear about it. Thanks, Alex > > -- > Cheers, > > David / dhildenb >