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| author | Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> | 2026-04-29 15:57:04 +0530 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-05-28 21:05:01 -0700 |
| commit | d46644af7636c4cb876110c8ff7f1efbbb815bfe (patch) | |
| tree | ed57dd57087333dd63eb3ebcc4fc45a4b23473e8 /include | |
| parent | 6ae51adb084a9d87a8b9501d2231e20271dece87 (diff) | |
mm: skip KASAN tagging for page-allocated page tables
Page tables are always accessed via the linear mapping with a match-all
tag, so HW-tag KASAN never checks them. For page-allocated tables (PTEs
and PGDs etc), avoid the tag setup and poisoning overhead by using
__GFP_SKIP_KASAN. SLUB-backed page tables are unchanged for now. (They
aren't widely used and require more SLUB related skip logic. Leave it
later.)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-4-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h b/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h index 57137d3ac159..051aa1331051 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_MMU -#define GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) +#define GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_SKIP_KASAN) #define GFP_PGTABLE_USER (GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT) /** |