From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: The future of PageAnonExclusive
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:48:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b153a96d-c777-49f7-8aa5-018fb41fb79f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oelikmopexm66p7pthwrt5qw6w4ro3hduc6thefvxdhcx2l27v@bxln22rb55hx>
On 11.12.24 14:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:56:11PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> (C) Encode it in the PTE.
>>>
>>> pte_write() -> PAE
>>>
>>> !pte_write() && pte_dirty() -> PAE
>>>
>>> !pte_write && !pte_dirty() -> !PAE
>
> You are late to the party. On x86, !pte_write() && pte_dirty() is shadow
> stack.
>
Hah, no, it works! :)
On x86 we use this fancy savedirty bit to handle that internally, such
that pte_write/pte_dirty keep working as expected on shadow stacks.
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-11 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-11 11:55 David Hildenbrand
2024-12-11 11:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-12-11 13:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2024-12-11 13:48 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-12-11 14:25 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-12-11 14:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-12-11 15:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-11 15:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-12-11 16:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-11 16:15 ` David Hildenbrand
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