linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 25/27] mm/mmap: Add Shadow stack pages to memory accounting

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:55:38 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>, 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,
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        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 25/27] mm/mmap: Add Shadow stack pages to memory
 accounting

On 6/6/19 1:06 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1703,6 +1703,9 @@ static inline int accountable_mapping(struct file *file, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
>  	if (file && is_file_hugepages(file))
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	if (arch_copy_pte_mapping(vm_flags))
> +		return 1;
> +
>  	return (vm_flags & (VM_NORESERVE | VM_SHARED | VM_WRITE)) == VM_WRITE;
>  }
>  
> @@ -3319,6 +3322,8 @@ void vm_stat_account(struct mm_struct *mm, vm_flags_t flags, long npages)
>  		mm->stack_vm += npages;
>  	else if (is_data_mapping(flags))
>  		mm->data_vm += npages;
> +	else if (arch_copy_pte_mapping(flags))
> +		mm->data_vm += npages;
>  }

This classifies shadow stack as data instead of stack.  That seems a wee
bit counterintuitive.  Why did you make this choice?