Re: [PATCH RFC v2 15/27] arm64: mte: Check that tag storage blocks are in the same zone

Alexandru Elisei
2023-11-30T12:00:51Z

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 05:57:44PM +0900, Hyesoo Yu wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 04:57:09PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> > alloc_contig_range() requires that the requested pages are in the same
> > zone. Check that this is indeed the case before initializing the tag
> > storage blocks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/kernel/mte_tag_storage.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte_tag_storage.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte_tag_storage.c
> > index 8b9bedf7575d..fd63430d4dc0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte_tag_storage.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte_tag_storage.c
> > @@ -265,6 +265,35 @@ void __init mte_tag_storage_init(void)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +/* alloc_contig_range() requires all pages to be in the same zone. */
> > +static int __init mte_tag_storage_check_zone(void)
> > +{
> > + struct range *tag_range;
> > + struct zone *zone;
> > + unsigned long pfn;
> > + u32 block_size;
> > + int i, j;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < num_tag_regions; i++) {
> > + block_size = tag_regions[i].block_size;
> > + if (block_size == 1)
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + tag_range = &tag_regions[i].tag_range;
> > + for (pfn = tag_range->start; pfn <= tag_range->end; pfn += block_size) {
> > + zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn));
>
> Hello.
>
> Since the blocks within the tag_range must all be in the same zone, can we move the "page_zone"
> out of the loop ?

Hmm.. why do you say that the pages in a tag_range must be in the same
zone? I am not very familiar with how the memory management code puts pages
into zones, but I would imagine that pages in a tag range straddling the
4GB limit (so, let's say, from 3GB to 5GB) will end up in both ZONE_DMA and
ZONE_NORMAL.

Thanks,
Alex

>
> Thanks,
> Regards.
>
> > + for (j = 1; j < block_size; j++) {
> > + if (page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn + j)) != zone) {
> > + pr_err("Tag storage block pages in different zones");
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int __init mte_tag_storage_activate_regions(void)
> > {
> > phys_addr_t dram_start, dram_end;
> > @@ -321,6 +350,10 @@ static int __init mte_tag_storage_activate_regions(void)
> > goto out_disabled;
> > }
> >
> > + ret = mte_tag_storage_check_zone();
> > + if (ret)
> > + goto out_disabled;
> > +
> > for (i = 0; i < num_tag_regions; i++) {
> > tag_range = &tag_regions[i].tag_range;
> > for (pfn = tag_range->start; pfn <= tag_range->end; pfn += pageblock_nr_pages)
> > --
> > 2.42.1
> >
> >