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my tests >>>> for MTE all pass ;) >>> >>> Thanks Lance for testing. I'll post one of the variants today. >>> >>>> This looks like a better fix since it solves the boot hang issue too. >>> >>> In principle, yes, until I tracked down why I changed it in the first >>> place - 68d54ceeec0e ("arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to >>> the zero page"). ptrace() can read tags from PROT_MTE mappings and we >>> want to allow reading zeroes as well if the page points to the zero >>> page. Not flagging the page as PG_mte_tagged caused issues. >>> >>> I can change the logic in the ptrace() code, I just need to figure out >>> what happens to the huge zero page. Ideally we should treat both in the >>> same way but, AFAICT, we don't use pmd_mkspecial() on the huge zero >>> page, so it gets flagged with PG_mte_tagged. >> >> I changed that recently :) The huge zero folio will now always have >> pmd_special() set. > > Oh, which commit was this? It means that we can end up with > uninitialised tags if we have a PROT_MTE huge zero page since > set_pmd_at/set_pte_at() skips mte_sync_tags(). > This one: commit d82d09e482199e6bbc204df10b2082f764cbe1f4 Author: David Hildenbrand Date: Mon Aug 11 13:26:25 2025 +0200 mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special The huge zero folio is refcounted (+mapcounted -- is that a word?) differently than "normal" folios, similarly (but different) to the ordinary shared zeropage. It should be in mm-stable, to go upstream in the upcoming merge window. It's been lurking in -next for a while now. As it behaves just like the ordinary shared zeropage now, would we have to zero/initialize the tags after allocating it? -- Cheers David / dhildenb