linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 10/11] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity)

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Date:   Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:26:16 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 10/11] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data
 Integrity)

On 02/21/2018 09:15 AM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> +tag_storage_desc_t *alloc_tag_store(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +				    struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +				    unsigned long addr)
...
> +	tags = kzalloc(size, GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NOWARN);
> +	if (tags == NULL) {
> +		tag_desc->tag_users = 0;
> +		tag_desc = NULL;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +	tag_desc->start = addr;
> +	tag_desc->tags = tags;
> +	tag_desc->end = end_addr;
> +
> +out:
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mm->context.tag_lock, flags);
> +	return tag_desc;
> +}

OK, sorry, I missed this.  I do see that you now have per-ADI-block tag
storage and it is not per-page.

How big can this storage get, btw?  Superficially it seems like it might
be able to be gigantic for a large, sparse VMA.