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From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
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Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	damon@lists.linux.dev
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


  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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