linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/35] kmsan: Expose kmsan_get

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:35:36 +0200
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, 
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/35] kmsan: Expose kmsan_get_metadata()

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Each s390 CPU has lowcore pages associated with it. Each CPU sees its
> own lowcore at virtual address 0 through a hardware mechanism called
> prefixing. Additionally, all lowcores are mapped to non-0 virtual
> addresses stored in the lowcore_ptr[] array.
>
> When lowcore is accessed through virtual address 0, one needs to
> resolve metadata for lowcore_ptr[raw_smp_processor_id()].
>
> Expose kmsan_get_metadata() to make it possible to do this from the
> arch code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>