From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] vmalloc: add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN support
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:26:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324132631.482520-2-usama.anjum@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260324132631.482520-1-usama.anjum@arm.com>
For allocations that will be accessed only with match-all pointers
(e.g., kernel stacks), setting tags is wasted work. If the caller
already set __GFP_SKIP_KASAN, don’t skip zeroing the pages and
don’t set KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL so kasan_unpoison_vmalloc()
returns early without tagging.
Before this patch, __GFP_SKIP_KASAN wasn't being used with vmalloc
APIs. So it wasn't being checked. Now its being checked and acted
upon. Other KASAN modes are unchanged because __GFP_SKIP_KASAN isn't
defined there.
This is a preparatory patch for optimizing kernel stack allocations.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- Simplify skip conditions based on the fact that __GFP_SKIP_KASAN
is zero in non-hw-tags mode.
- Add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED list of flags
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index c607307c657a6..69ae205effb46 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3939,7 +3939,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO |\
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |\
GFP_NOFS | GFP_NOIO | GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT |\
- GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
+ GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP | __GFP_SKIP_KASAN)
static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
{
@@ -3980,6 +3980,8 @@ static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
*
* %__GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failure messages.
*
+ * %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN can be used to skip poisoning
+ *
* Can not be called from interrupt nor NMI contexts.
* Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure
*/
@@ -4041,7 +4043,9 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
* kasan_unpoison_vmalloc().
*/
if (pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL)) {
- if (kasan_hw_tags_enabled()) {
+ bool skip_kasan = gfp_mask & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN;
+
+ if (kasan_hw_tags_enabled() && !skip_kasan) {
/*
* Modify protection bits to allow tagging.
* This must be done before mapping.
@@ -4057,7 +4061,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
}
/* Take note that the mapping is PAGE_KERNEL. */
- kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL;
+ if (!skip_kasan)
+ kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL;
}
/* Allocate physical pages and map them into vmalloc space. */
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 13:26 [PATCH v2 0/3] KASAN: HW_TAGS: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-03-24 13:26 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2026-03-24 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-03-24 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: skip KASAN tagging for page-allocated page tables Muhammad Usama Anjum
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