linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: introduce __PAGE_KERNEL

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:00:38 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        keescook@...gle.com, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: introduce __PAGE_KERNEL_GLOBAL

On 02/16/2018 11:54 AM, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> But I don't really want to hide that gunk in a macro like that.  It
>> might make more sense as a static inline.  I'll give that a shot and resent.
> Since determining whether PTI is on is done in several places in the kernel,
> maybe there should a single function to determine whether PTI is on,
> something like:
> 
> static inline bool is_pti_on(void)
> {
> 	return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION) && 
> 		static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI);
> }

We should be able to do it with disabled-features.h and the X86_FEATURE
bit.  I'll look into it.