linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] arm64: ptdump: Use the mask from the state structure

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Message-ID: <20240705111229.GB9231@willie-the-truck>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:12:29 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] arm64: ptdump: Use the mask from the state
 structure

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:32:27PM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> Printing the descriptor attributes requires accessing a mask which has a
> different set of attributes for stage-2. In preparation for adding support
> for the stage-2 pagetables dumping, use the mask from the local context
> and not from the globally defined pg_level array. Store a pointer to
> the pg_level array in the ptdump state structure. This will allow us to
> extract the mask which is wrapped in the pg_level array and use it for
> descriptor parsing in the note_page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c          | 13 ++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h
> index c550b2afcab7..a4125d8d5a32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct pg_level {
>   */
>  struct pg_state {
>  	struct ptdump_state ptdump;
> +	struct pg_level *pg_level;
>  	struct seq_file *seq;
>  	const struct addr_marker *marker;
>  	const struct mm_struct *mm;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> index e370b7a945de..9637a6415ea7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ void note_page(struct ptdump_state *pt_st, unsigned long addr, int level,
>  	       u64 val)
>  {
>  	struct pg_state *st = container_of(pt_st, struct pg_state, ptdump);
> +	struct pg_level *pg_info = st->pg_level;
>  	static const char units[] = "KMGTPE";
>  	u64 prot = 0;
>  
> @@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ void note_page(struct ptdump_state *pt_st, unsigned long addr, int level,
>  		level = 0;
>  
>  	if (level >= 0)
> -		prot = val & pg_level[level].mask;
> +		prot = val & pg_info[level].mask;

If you rename the existing 'pg_level' array to something like
'kernel_pg_levels' then I think your local 'pg_info' variable can be
called 'pg_level' and this line doesn't need to change.

>  
>  	if (st->level == -1) {
>  		st->level = level;
> @@ -227,10 +228,10 @@ void note_page(struct ptdump_state *pt_st, unsigned long addr, int level,
>  			unit++;
>  		}
>  		pt_dump_seq_printf(st->seq, "%9lu%c %s", delta, *unit,
> -				   pg_level[st->level].name);
> -		if (st->current_prot && pg_level[st->level].bits)
> -			dump_prot(st, pg_level[st->level].bits,
> -				  pg_level[st->level].num);
> +				   pg_info[st->level].name);
> +		if (st->current_prot && pg_info[st->level].bits)
> +			dump_prot(st, pg_info[st->level].bits,
> +				  pg_info[st->level].num);

I think this could then stay as-is too.

>  		pt_dump_seq_puts(st->seq, "\n");
>  
>  		if (addr >= st->marker[1].start_address) {
> @@ -262,6 +263,7 @@ void ptdump_walk(struct seq_file *s, struct ptdump_info *info)
>  		.seq = s,
>  		.marker = info->markers,
>  		.mm = info->mm,
> +		.pg_level = &pg_level[0],

Can't this just be '.pg_level = kernel_pg_levels'?

Will