From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
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Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 06/11] mm/kasan: use hw_pte_t for the early shadow PTE table
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:46:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260727164715.2866609-7-usama.anjum@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260727164715.2866609-1-usama.anjum@arm.com>
kasan_early_shadow_pte is a complete PTE table rather than a
standalone PTE value. Declare and define its elements as hw_pte_t so
the object uses the PTE table storage type.
Read the first element through ptep_get(), which returns the logical
pte_t value expected by note_page_pte(), instead of accessing hw_pte_t
storage directly. This also uses the accessor selected by the
architecture.
The generic hw_pte_t remains an alias of pte_t, so the storage
representation is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
---
include/linux/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/init.c | 2 +-
mm/ptdump.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
index bf233bde68c7e..ff41949c0ac08 100644
--- a/include/linux/kasan.h
+++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise kasan_vmalloc_flags_t;
#endif
extern unsigned char kasan_early_shadow_page[PAGE_SIZE];
-extern pte_t kasan_early_shadow_pte[MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE + PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS];
+extern hw_pte_t kasan_early_shadow_pte[MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE + PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS];
extern pmd_t kasan_early_shadow_pmd[MAX_PTRS_PER_PMD];
extern pud_t kasan_early_shadow_pud[MAX_PTRS_PER_PUD];
extern p4d_t kasan_early_shadow_p4d[MAX_PTRS_PER_P4D];
diff --git a/mm/kasan/init.c b/mm/kasan/init.c
index 30c5266eaf37e..9bbc2a41d23f0 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/init.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/init.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static inline bool kasan_pmd_table(pud_t pud)
return false;
}
#endif
-pte_t kasan_early_shadow_pte[MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE + PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS]
+hw_pte_t kasan_early_shadow_pte[MAX_PTRS_PER_PTE + PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS]
__bss_pgtbl;
static inline bool kasan_pte_table(pmd_t pmd)
diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c
index 376880071ca2a..8f19f20be3c44 100644
--- a/mm/ptdump.c
+++ b/mm/ptdump.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ static inline int note_kasan_page_table(struct mm_walk *walk,
{
struct ptdump_state *st = walk->private;
- st->note_page_pte(st, addr, kasan_early_shadow_pte[0]);
+ st->note_page_pte(st, addr, ptep_get(kasan_early_shadow_pte));
walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE;
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-27 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-27 16:46 [PATCH RFC 00/11] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 01/11] mm: introduce hw_pte_t for PTE table storage Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 02/11] mm: make hw_pte_t visible to generic PTE interfaces Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 03/11] mm: name pointers to copied PTE values ptentp Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 04/11] mm: use hw_pte_t for generic PTE table storage Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 05/11] mm: convert PTE table entries in ptep_get() Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 07/11] mm/mremap: use ptep_get() for the destination PTE Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:46 ` [PATCH RFC 08/11] drm/i915: use hw_pte_t for PTE range callbacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 09/11] misc/sgi-gru: use ptep_get() for page-table reads Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 10/11] parisc: use hw_pte_t for the data-break callback Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-27 16:47 ` [PATCH RFC 11/11] xen: use hw_pte_t for PTE range callbacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-28 19:26 ` [PATCH RFC 00/11] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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