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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 18/29] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl()
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:28:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200722102845.GA27540@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720170050.GJ30452@arm.com>

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> > On 15/07/2020 18:08, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > >+void mte_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
> > >+{
> > >+	if (!system_supports_mte())
> > >+		return;
> > >+
> > >+	/* avoid expensive SCTLR_EL1 accesses if no change */
> > >+	if (current->thread.sctlr_tcf0 != next->thread.sctlr_tcf0)
> > 
> > I think this could be improved by checking whether `next` is a kernel
> > thread, in which case thread.sctlr_tcf0 is 0 but there is no point in
> > setting SCTLR_EL1.TCF0, since there should not be any access via TTBR0.
> 
> Out of interest, do we have a nice way of testing for a kernel thread
> now?
> 
> I remember fpsimd_thread_switch() used to check for task->mm, but we
> seem to have got rid of that at some point.  set_mm() can defeat this,
> and anyway the heavy lifting for FPSIMD is now deferred until returning
> to userspace.

I think a better way is (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD). kthread_use_mm()
indeed changes current->mm.

-- 
Catalin

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-22 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200715170844.30064-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
     [not found] ` <20200715170844.30064-19-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-07-20 15:30   ` [PATCH v7 18/29] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl() Kevin Brodsky
2020-07-20 17:00     ` Dave Martin
2020-07-22 10:28       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-07-23 19:33       ` Kevin Brodsky
2020-07-22 11:09     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-04 19:34   ` Kevin Brodsky
2020-08-05  9:24     ` Catalin Marinas
     [not found] ` <20200715170844.30064-30-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-07-27 16:36   ` [PATCH v7 29/29] arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation Szabolcs Nagy
2020-07-28 11:08     ` Dave Martin
2020-07-28 14:53       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-07-28 19:59         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-03 12:43           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-08-07 15:19             ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-10 14:13               ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-08-11 17:20                 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-12 12:45                   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-08-19  9:54                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-20 16:43                       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-08-20 17:27                         ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22 11:31                           ` Catalin Marinas
2020-08-22 11:28                         ` Catalin Marinas
     [not found] ` <20200715170844.30064-23-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-08-13 14:01   ` [PATCH v7 22/29] arm64: mte: ptrace: Add PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}MTETAGS support Luis Machado
2020-08-22 10:56     ` Catalin Marinas

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