linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM

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Message-ID: <1531325701.13297.32.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:15:01 -0700
From:   Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omiun.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack
 memory

On Wed, 2018-07-11 at 10:34 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:20PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > 
> > VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.
> > 
> > A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and dirty.  For non shadow
> > stack, we use a spare bit of the 64-bit PTE for dirty.  The PTE
> > changes are in the next patch.
> This doesn't make any sense.. the $subject and the patch seem
> completely
> unrelated to this Changelog.

I was trying to say why this is only defined for 64-bit.  I will fix
it.

Yu-cheng