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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
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<title>Merge branches 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/tlbflush', 'for-next/ttbr-macros-cleanup', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/feat_lsui', 'for-next/mpam', 'for-next/hotplug-batched-tlbi', 'for-next/bbml2-fixes', 'for-next/sysreg', 'for-next/generic-entry' and 'for-next/acpi', remote-tracking branches 'arm64/for-next/perf' and 'arm64/for-next/read-once' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2026-04-10T13:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2026-04-10T13:22:24+00:00</published>
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* arm64/for-next/perf:
  : Perf updates
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix resource_size_t printk specifier in arm_cmn_init_dtc()
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix incorrect error check for devm_ioremap()
  perf: add NVIDIA Tegra410 C2C PMU
  perf: add NVIDIA Tegra410 CPU Memory Latency PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 PCIE-TGT PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 PCIE PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add arm_cspmu_acpi_dev_get
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 UCF PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Rename doc to Tegra241
  perf/arm-cmn: Stop claiming entire iomem region
  arm64: cpufeature: Use pmuv3_implemented() function
  arm64: cpufeature: Make PMUVer and PerfMon unsigned
  KVM: arm64: Read PMUVer as unsigned

* arm64/for-next/read-once:
  : Fixes for __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y
  arm64, compiler-context-analysis: Permit alias analysis through __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y
  arm64: Optimize __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y

* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous cleanups/fixes
  arm64: rsi: use linear-map alias for realm config buffer
  arm64: Kconfig: fix duplicate word in CMDLINE help text
  arm64: mte: Skip TFSR_EL1 checks and barriers in synchronous tag check mode
  arm64/hwcap: Generate the KERNEL_HWCAP_ definitions for the hwcaps
  arm64: kexec: Remove duplicate allocation for trans_pgd
  arm64: mm: Use generic enum pgtable_level
  arm64: scs: Remove redundant save/restore of SCS SP on entry to/from EL0
  arm64: remove ARCH_INLINE_*

* for-next/tlbflush:
  : Refactor the arm64 TLB invalidation API and implementation
  arm64: mm: __ptep_set_access_flags must hint correct TTL
  arm64: mm: Provide level hint for flush_tlb_page()
  arm64: mm: Wrap flush_tlb_page() around __do_flush_tlb_range()
  arm64: mm: More flags for __flush_tlb_range()
  arm64: mm: Refactor __flush_tlb_range() to take flags
  arm64: mm: Refactor flush_tlb_page() to use __tlbi_level_asid()
  arm64: mm: Simplify __flush_tlb_range_limit_excess()
  arm64: mm: Simplify __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() macro
  arm64: mm: Re-implement the __flush_tlb_range_op macro in C
  arm64: mm: Inline __TLBI_VADDR_RANGE() into __tlbi_range()
  arm64: mm: Push __TLBI_VADDR() into __tlbi_level()
  arm64: mm: Implicitly invalidate user ASID based on TLBI operation
  arm64: mm: Introduce a C wrapper for by-range TLB invalidation
  arm64: mm: Re-implement the __tlbi_level macro as a C function

* for-next/ttbr-macros-cleanup:
  : Cleanups of the TTBR1_* macros
  arm64/mm: Directly use TTBRx_EL1_CnP
  arm64/mm: Directly use TTBRx_EL1_ASID_MASK
  arm64/mm: Describe TTBR1_BADDR_4852_OFFSET

* for-next/kselftest:
  : arm64 kselftest updates
  selftests/arm64: Implement cmpbr_sigill() to hwcap test

* for-next/feat_lsui:
  : Futex support using FEAT_LSUI instructions to avoid toggling PAN
  arm64: armv8_deprecated: Disable swp emulation when FEAT_LSUI present
  arm64: Kconfig: Add support for LSUI
  KVM: arm64: Use CAST instruction for swapping guest descriptor
  arm64: futex: Support futex with FEAT_LSUI
  arm64: futex: Refactor futex atomic operation
  KVM: arm64: kselftest: set_id_regs: Add test for FEAT_LSUI
  KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_LSUI to guests
  arm64: cpufeature: Add FEAT_LSUI

* for-next/mpam: (40 commits)
  : Expose MPAM to user-space via resctrl:
  :  - Add architecture context-switch and hiding of the feature from KVM.
  :  - Add interface to allow MPAM to be exposed to user-space using resctrl.
  :  - Add errata workaoround for some existing platforms.
  :  - Add documentation for using MPAM and what shape of platforms can use resctrl
  arm64: mpam: Add initial MPAM documentation
  arm_mpam: Quirk CMN-650's CSU NRDY behaviour
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-6
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-4
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-1
  arm_mpam: Add quirk framework
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Call resctrl_init() on platforms that can support resctrl
  arm64: mpam: Select ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add empty definitions for assorted resctrl functions
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Update the rmid reallocation limit
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add resctrl_arch_rmid_read()
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Allow resctrl to allocate monitors
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add support for csu counters
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add monitor initialisation and domain boilerplate
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add kunit test for control format conversions
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add support for 'MB' resource
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Wait for cacheinfo to be ready
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add rmid index helpers
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Convert to/from MPAMs fixed-point formats
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Hide CDP emulation behind CONFIG_EXPERT
  ...

* for-next/hotplug-batched-tlbi:
  : arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()
  arm64/mm: Reject memory removal that splits a kernel leaf mapping
  arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()

* for-next/bbml2-fixes:
  : Fixes for realm guest and BBML2_NOABORT
  arm64: mm: Remove pmd_sect() and pud_sect()
  arm64: mm: Handle invalid large leaf mappings correctly
  arm64: mm: Fix rodata=full block mapping support for realm guests

* for-next/sysreg:
  : arm64 sysreg updates
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64FPFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update SMIDR_EL1 to DDI0601 2025-06

* for-next/generic-entry:
  : More arm64 refactoring towards using the generic entry code
  arm64: Check DAIF (and PMR) at task-switch time
  arm64: entry: Use split preemption logic
  arm64: entry: Use irqentry_{enter_from,exit_to}_kernel_mode()
  arm64: entry: Consistently prefix arm64-specific wrappers
  arm64: entry: Don't preempt with SError or Debug masked
  entry: Split preemption from irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode()
  entry: Split kernel mode logic from irqentry_{enter,exit}()
  entry: Move irqentry_enter() prototype later
  entry: Remove local_irq_{enable,disable}_exit_to_user()
  entry: Fix stale comment for irqentry_enter()

* for-next/acpi:
  : arm64 ACPI updates
  ACPI: AGDI: fix missing newline in error message
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* arm64/for-next/perf:
  : Perf updates
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix resource_size_t printk specifier in arm_cmn_init_dtc()
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix incorrect error check for devm_ioremap()
  perf: add NVIDIA Tegra410 C2C PMU
  perf: add NVIDIA Tegra410 CPU Memory Latency PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 PCIE-TGT PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 PCIE PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add arm_cspmu_acpi_dev_get
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add Tegra410 UCF PMU
  perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Rename doc to Tegra241
  perf/arm-cmn: Stop claiming entire iomem region
  arm64: cpufeature: Use pmuv3_implemented() function
  arm64: cpufeature: Make PMUVer and PerfMon unsigned
  KVM: arm64: Read PMUVer as unsigned

* arm64/for-next/read-once:
  : Fixes for __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y
  arm64, compiler-context-analysis: Permit alias analysis through __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y
  arm64: Optimize __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y

* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous cleanups/fixes
  arm64: rsi: use linear-map alias for realm config buffer
  arm64: Kconfig: fix duplicate word in CMDLINE help text
  arm64: mte: Skip TFSR_EL1 checks and barriers in synchronous tag check mode
  arm64/hwcap: Generate the KERNEL_HWCAP_ definitions for the hwcaps
  arm64: kexec: Remove duplicate allocation for trans_pgd
  arm64: mm: Use generic enum pgtable_level
  arm64: scs: Remove redundant save/restore of SCS SP on entry to/from EL0
  arm64: remove ARCH_INLINE_*

* for-next/tlbflush:
  : Refactor the arm64 TLB invalidation API and implementation
  arm64: mm: __ptep_set_access_flags must hint correct TTL
  arm64: mm: Provide level hint for flush_tlb_page()
  arm64: mm: Wrap flush_tlb_page() around __do_flush_tlb_range()
  arm64: mm: More flags for __flush_tlb_range()
  arm64: mm: Refactor __flush_tlb_range() to take flags
  arm64: mm: Refactor flush_tlb_page() to use __tlbi_level_asid()
  arm64: mm: Simplify __flush_tlb_range_limit_excess()
  arm64: mm: Simplify __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() macro
  arm64: mm: Re-implement the __flush_tlb_range_op macro in C
  arm64: mm: Inline __TLBI_VADDR_RANGE() into __tlbi_range()
  arm64: mm: Push __TLBI_VADDR() into __tlbi_level()
  arm64: mm: Implicitly invalidate user ASID based on TLBI operation
  arm64: mm: Introduce a C wrapper for by-range TLB invalidation
  arm64: mm: Re-implement the __tlbi_level macro as a C function

* for-next/ttbr-macros-cleanup:
  : Cleanups of the TTBR1_* macros
  arm64/mm: Directly use TTBRx_EL1_CnP
  arm64/mm: Directly use TTBRx_EL1_ASID_MASK
  arm64/mm: Describe TTBR1_BADDR_4852_OFFSET

* for-next/kselftest:
  : arm64 kselftest updates
  selftests/arm64: Implement cmpbr_sigill() to hwcap test

* for-next/feat_lsui:
  : Futex support using FEAT_LSUI instructions to avoid toggling PAN
  arm64: armv8_deprecated: Disable swp emulation when FEAT_LSUI present
  arm64: Kconfig: Add support for LSUI
  KVM: arm64: Use CAST instruction for swapping guest descriptor
  arm64: futex: Support futex with FEAT_LSUI
  arm64: futex: Refactor futex atomic operation
  KVM: arm64: kselftest: set_id_regs: Add test for FEAT_LSUI
  KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_LSUI to guests
  arm64: cpufeature: Add FEAT_LSUI

* for-next/mpam: (40 commits)
  : Expose MPAM to user-space via resctrl:
  :  - Add architecture context-switch and hiding of the feature from KVM.
  :  - Add interface to allow MPAM to be exposed to user-space using resctrl.
  :  - Add errata workaoround for some existing platforms.
  :  - Add documentation for using MPAM and what shape of platforms can use resctrl
  arm64: mpam: Add initial MPAM documentation
  arm_mpam: Quirk CMN-650's CSU NRDY behaviour
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-6
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-4
  arm_mpam: Add workaround for T241-MPAM-1
  arm_mpam: Add quirk framework
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Call resctrl_init() on platforms that can support resctrl
  arm64: mpam: Select ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add empty definitions for assorted resctrl functions
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Update the rmid reallocation limit
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add resctrl_arch_rmid_read()
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Allow resctrl to allocate monitors
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add support for csu counters
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add monitor initialisation and domain boilerplate
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add kunit test for control format conversions
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add support for 'MB' resource
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Wait for cacheinfo to be ready
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Add rmid index helpers
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Convert to/from MPAMs fixed-point formats
  arm_mpam: resctrl: Hide CDP emulation behind CONFIG_EXPERT
  ...

* for-next/hotplug-batched-tlbi:
  : arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()
  arm64/mm: Reject memory removal that splits a kernel leaf mapping
  arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()

* for-next/bbml2-fixes:
  : Fixes for realm guest and BBML2_NOABORT
  arm64: mm: Remove pmd_sect() and pud_sect()
  arm64: mm: Handle invalid large leaf mappings correctly
  arm64: mm: Fix rodata=full block mapping support for realm guests

* for-next/sysreg:
  : arm64 sysreg updates
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64FPFR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1 description to DDI0601 2025-12
  arm64/sysreg: Update SMIDR_EL1 to DDI0601 2025-06

* for-next/generic-entry:
  : More arm64 refactoring towards using the generic entry code
  arm64: Check DAIF (and PMR) at task-switch time
  arm64: entry: Use split preemption logic
  arm64: entry: Use irqentry_{enter_from,exit_to}_kernel_mode()
  arm64: entry: Consistently prefix arm64-specific wrappers
  arm64: entry: Don't preempt with SError or Debug masked
  entry: Split preemption from irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode()
  entry: Split kernel mode logic from irqentry_{enter,exit}()
  entry: Move irqentry_enter() prototype later
  entry: Remove local_irq_{enable,disable}_exit_to_user()
  entry: Fix stale comment for irqentry_enter()

* for-next/acpi:
  : arm64 ACPI updates
  ACPI: AGDI: fix missing newline in error message
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<title>arm64: mte: Skip TFSR_EL1 checks and barriers in synchronous tag check mode</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T17:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muhammad Usama Anjum</name>
<email>usama.anjum@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-11T17:50:50+00:00</published>
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With KASAN_HW_TAGS (MTE) in synchronous mode, tag check faults are
reported as immediate Data Abort exceptions. The TFSR_EL1.TF1 bit is
never set since faults never go through the asynchronous path.
Therefore, reading TFSR_EL1 and executing data and instruction barriers
on kernel entry, exit, context switch and suspend is unnecessary
overhead.

As with the check_mte_async_tcf and clear_mte_async_tcf paths for
TFSRE0_EL1, extend the same optimisation to kernel entry/exit, context
switch and suspend.

All mte kselftests pass. The kunit before and after the patch show same
results.

A selection of test_vmalloc benchmarks running on a arm64 machine.
v6.19 is the baseline. (&gt;0 is faster, &lt;0 is slower, (R)/(I) =
statistically significant Regression/Improvement). Based on significance
and ignoring the noise, the benchmarks improved.

* 77 result classes were considered, with 9 wins, 0 losses and 68 ties

Results of fastpath [1] on v6.19 vs this patch:

+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| Benchmark                  | Result Class                                             |   barriers |
+============================+==========================================================+============+
| micromm/fork               | fork: p:1, d:10 (seconds)                                |  (I) 2.75% |
|                            | fork: p:512, d:10 (seconds)                              |      0.96% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| micromm/munmap             | munmap: p:1, d:10 (seconds)                              |     -1.78% |
|                            | munmap: p:512, d:10 (seconds)                            |      5.02% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| micromm/vmalloc            | fix_align_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)          |     -0.56% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      0.70% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:4, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      1.18% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:16, h:0, l:500000 (usec)          |     -5.01% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:16, h:1, l:500000 (usec)          |     13.81% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:64, h:0, l:100000 (usec)          |      6.51% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:64, h:1, l:100000 (usec)          |     32.87% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:256, h:0, l:100000 (usec)         |      4.17% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:256, h:1, l:100000 (usec)         |      8.40% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:512, h:0, l:100000 (usec)         |     -0.48% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:512, h:1, l:100000 (usec)         |     -0.74% |
|                            | full_fit_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      0.53% |
|                            | kvfree_rcu_1_arg_vmalloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec) |     -2.81% |
|                            | kvfree_rcu_2_arg_vmalloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec) |     -2.06% |
|                            | long_busy_list_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)     |     -0.56% |
|                            | pcpu_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)               |     -0.41% |
|                            | random_size_align_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)  |      0.89% |
|                            | random_size_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)        |      1.71% |
|                            | vm_map_ram_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)               |      0.83% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| schbench/thread-contention | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |      0.05% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.60% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.34% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |     -0.58% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      9.09% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.74% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |     -1.40% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.78% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |     -0.11% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.11% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      2.64% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      3.15% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     17.54% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -1.22% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.85% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.34% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      1.05% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.41% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      0.58% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      2.13% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |      0.67% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      2.07% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |     -1.28% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      1.01% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      0.69% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     13.12% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.25% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |     -0.48% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |     10.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.06% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.36% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      0.52% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.11% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |      0.52% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      3.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |     -0.10% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      2.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      1.82% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     -5.80% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/getpid             | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 15.98% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 11.11% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               | (I) 16.13% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/getppid            | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 14.82% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 17.86% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               |  (I) 9.09% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/invalid            | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 17.78% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 11.11% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               |     13.33% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+

[1] https://gitlab.arm.com/tooling/fastpath

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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With KASAN_HW_TAGS (MTE) in synchronous mode, tag check faults are
reported as immediate Data Abort exceptions. The TFSR_EL1.TF1 bit is
never set since faults never go through the asynchronous path.
Therefore, reading TFSR_EL1 and executing data and instruction barriers
on kernel entry, exit, context switch and suspend is unnecessary
overhead.

As with the check_mte_async_tcf and clear_mte_async_tcf paths for
TFSRE0_EL1, extend the same optimisation to kernel entry/exit, context
switch and suspend.

All mte kselftests pass. The kunit before and after the patch show same
results.

A selection of test_vmalloc benchmarks running on a arm64 machine.
v6.19 is the baseline. (&gt;0 is faster, &lt;0 is slower, (R)/(I) =
statistically significant Regression/Improvement). Based on significance
and ignoring the noise, the benchmarks improved.

* 77 result classes were considered, with 9 wins, 0 losses and 68 ties

Results of fastpath [1] on v6.19 vs this patch:

+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| Benchmark                  | Result Class                                             |   barriers |
+============================+==========================================================+============+
| micromm/fork               | fork: p:1, d:10 (seconds)                                |  (I) 2.75% |
|                            | fork: p:512, d:10 (seconds)                              |      0.96% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| micromm/munmap             | munmap: p:1, d:10 (seconds)                              |     -1.78% |
|                            | munmap: p:512, d:10 (seconds)                            |      5.02% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| micromm/vmalloc            | fix_align_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)          |     -0.56% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      0.70% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:4, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      1.18% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:16, h:0, l:500000 (usec)          |     -5.01% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:16, h:1, l:500000 (usec)          |     13.81% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:64, h:0, l:100000 (usec)          |      6.51% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:64, h:1, l:100000 (usec)          |     32.87% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:256, h:0, l:100000 (usec)         |      4.17% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:256, h:1, l:100000 (usec)         |      8.40% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:512, h:0, l:100000 (usec)         |     -0.48% |
|                            | fix_size_alloc_test: p:512, h:1, l:100000 (usec)         |     -0.74% |
|                            | full_fit_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)           |      0.53% |
|                            | kvfree_rcu_1_arg_vmalloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec) |     -2.81% |
|                            | kvfree_rcu_2_arg_vmalloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec) |     -2.06% |
|                            | long_busy_list_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)     |     -0.56% |
|                            | pcpu_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)               |     -0.41% |
|                            | random_size_align_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)  |      0.89% |
|                            | random_size_alloc_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)        |      1.71% |
|                            | vm_map_ram_test: p:1, h:0, l:500000 (usec)               |      0.83% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| schbench/thread-contention | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |      0.05% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.60% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.34% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |     -0.58% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      9.09% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.74% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |     -1.40% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.78% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |     -0.11% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.11% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      2.64% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      3.15% |
|                            | -m 16 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     17.54% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -1.22% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.85% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.34% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      1.05% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.41% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      0.58% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      2.13% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |      0.67% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      2.07% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |     -1.28% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      1.01% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      0.69% |
|                            | -m 32 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     13.12% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.25% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |     -0.48% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 1 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |     10.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)              |     -0.06% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)         |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 4 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)      |      0.00% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |     -0.36% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      0.52% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 16 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |      0.11% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)             |      0.52% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)        |      3.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 64 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)     |     -0.10% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, avg_rps (req/sec)            |      2.53% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, req_latency_p99 (usec)       |      1.82% |
|                            | -m 64 -t 256 -r 10 -s 1000, wakeup_latency_p99 (usec)    |     -5.80% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/getpid             | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 15.98% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 11.11% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               | (I) 16.13% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/getppid            | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 14.82% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 17.86% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               |  (I) 9.09% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| syscall/invalid            | mean (ns)                                                | (I) 17.78% |
|                            | p99 (ns)                                                 | (I) 11.11% |
|                            | p99.9 (ns)                                               |     13.33% |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+------------+

[1] https://gitlab.arm.com/tooling/fastpath

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/mm: Directly use TTBRx_EL1_CnP</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T16:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-02T06:44:37+00:00</published>
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Replace all TTBR_CNP_BIT macro instances with TTBRx_EL1_CNP_BIT which
is a standard field from tools sysreg format. Drop the now redundant
custom macro TTBR_CNP_BIT. No functional change.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Replace all TTBR_CNP_BIT macro instances with TTBRx_EL1_CNP_BIT which
is a standard field from tools sysreg format. Drop the now redundant
custom macro TTBR_CNP_BIT. No functional change.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: initialise the tags of the huge zero folio</title>
<updated>2025-11-10T05:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-31T16:57:50+00:00</published>
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On arm64 with MTE enabled, a page mapped as Normal Tagged (PROT_MTE) in
user space will need to have its allocation tags initialised.  This is
normally done in the arm64 set_pte_at() after checking the memory
attributes.  Such page is also marked with the PG_mte_tagged flag to avoid
subsequent clearing.  Since this relies on having a struct page,
pte_special() mappings are ignored.

Commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero
folio special") maps the huge zero folio special and the arm64
set_pmd_at() will no longer zero the tags.  There is no guarantee that the
tags are zero, especially if parts of this huge page have been previously
tagged.

It's fairly easy to detect this by regularly dropping the caches to
force the reallocation of the huge zero folio.

Allocate the huge zero folio with the __GFP_ZEROTAGS flag.  In addition,
do not warn in the arm64 __access_remote_tags() when reading tags from the
huge zero page.

I bundled the arm64 change in here as well since they are both related to
the commit mapping the huge zero folio as special.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: handle arch mte_zero_clear_page_tags() code issuing MTE instructions]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aQi8dA_QpXM8XqrE@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251031170133.280742-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Fixes: d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Beleswar Padhi &lt;b-padhi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On arm64 with MTE enabled, a page mapped as Normal Tagged (PROT_MTE) in
user space will need to have its allocation tags initialised.  This is
normally done in the arm64 set_pte_at() after checking the memory
attributes.  Such page is also marked with the PG_mte_tagged flag to avoid
subsequent clearing.  Since this relies on having a struct page,
pte_special() mappings are ignored.

Commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero
folio special") maps the huge zero folio special and the arm64
set_pmd_at() will no longer zero the tags.  There is no guarantee that the
tags are zero, especially if parts of this huge page have been previously
tagged.

It's fairly easy to detect this by regularly dropping the caches to
force the reallocation of the huge zero folio.

Allocate the huge zero folio with the __GFP_ZEROTAGS flag.  In addition,
do not warn in the arm64 __access_remote_tags() when reading tags from the
huge zero page.

I bundled the arm64 change in here as well since they are both related to
the commit mapping the huge zero folio as special.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: handle arch mte_zero_clear_page_tags() code issuing MTE instructions]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aQi8dA_QpXM8XqrE@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251031170133.280742-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Fixes: d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Beleswar Padhi &lt;b-padhi@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-07T15:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T15:59:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=971199ad2a0f1b2fbe14af13369704aff2999988'/>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:

 - Preserve old 'tt_core' UAPI for Hisilicon L3C PMU driver

 - Ensure linear alias of kprobes instruction page is not writable

 - Fix kernel stack unwinding from BPF

 - Fix build warnings from the Fujitsu uncore PMU documentation

 - Fix hang with deferred 'struct page' initialisation and MTE

 - Consolidate KPTI page-table re-writing code

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: mte: Do not flag the zero page as PG_mte_tagged
  docs: perf: Fujitsu: Fix htmldocs build warnings and errors
  arm64: mm: Move KPTI helpers to mmu.c
  tracing: Fix the bug where bpf_get_stackid returns -EFAULT on the ARM64
  arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add tt_core_deprecated for compatibility
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:

 - Preserve old 'tt_core' UAPI for Hisilicon L3C PMU driver

 - Ensure linear alias of kprobes instruction page is not writable

 - Fix kernel stack unwinding from BPF

 - Fix build warnings from the Fujitsu uncore PMU documentation

 - Fix hang with deferred 'struct page' initialisation and MTE

 - Consolidate KPTI page-table re-writing code

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: mte: Do not flag the zero page as PG_mte_tagged
  docs: perf: Fujitsu: Fix htmldocs build warnings and errors
  arm64: mm: Move KPTI helpers to mmu.c
  tracing: Fix the bug where bpf_get_stackid returns -EFAULT on the ARM64
  arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add tt_core_deprecated for compatibility
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: mte: Do not flag the zero page as PG_mte_tagged</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T14:27:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-24T12:31:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f620d66af3165838bfa845dcf9f5f9b4089bf508'/>
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Commit 68d54ceeec0e ("arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the
zero page") attempted to fix ptrace() reading of tags from the zero page
by marking it as PG_mte_tagged during cpu_enable_mte(). The same commit
also changed the ptrace() tag access permission check to the VM_MTE vma
flag while turning the page flag test into a WARN_ON_ONCE().

Attempting to set the PG_mte_tagged flag early with
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled may either hang (after commit
d77e59a8fccd "arm64: mte: Lock a page for MTE tag initialisation") or
have the flags cleared later during page_alloc_init_late(). In addition,
pages_identical() -&gt; memcmp_pages() will reject any comparison with the
zero page as it is marked as tagged.

Partially revert the above commit to avoid setting PG_mte_tagged on the
zero page. Update the __access_remote_tags() warning on untagged pages
to ignore the zero page since it is known to have the tags initialised.

Note that all user mapping of the zero page are marked as pte_special().
The arm64 set_pte_at() will not call mte_sync_tags() on such pages, so
PG_mte_tagged will remain cleared.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 68d54ceeec0e ("arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the zero page")
Reported-by: Gergely Kovacs &lt;Gergely.Kovacs2@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10.x
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 68d54ceeec0e ("arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the
zero page") attempted to fix ptrace() reading of tags from the zero page
by marking it as PG_mte_tagged during cpu_enable_mte(). The same commit
also changed the ptrace() tag access permission check to the VM_MTE vma
flag while turning the page flag test into a WARN_ON_ONCE().

Attempting to set the PG_mte_tagged flag early with
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled may either hang (after commit
d77e59a8fccd "arm64: mte: Lock a page for MTE tag initialisation") or
have the flags cleared later during page_alloc_init_late(). In addition,
pages_identical() -&gt; memcmp_pages() will reject any comparison with the
zero page as it is marked as tagged.

Partially revert the above commit to avoid setting PG_mte_tagged on the
zero page. Update the __access_remote_tags() warning on untagged pages
to ignore the zero page since it is known to have the tags initialised.

Note that all user mapping of the zero page are marked as pte_special().
The arm64 set_pte_at() will not call mte_sync_tags() on such pages, so
PG_mte_tagged will remain cleared.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 68d54ceeec0e ("arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the zero page")
Reported-by: Gergely Kovacs &lt;Gergely.Kovacs2@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10.x
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.write_only option</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T21:22:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yeoreum Yun</name>
<email>yeoreum.yun@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T22:27:54+00:00</published>
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Patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags", v8.

Hardware tag based KASAN is implemented using the Memory Tagging Extension
(MTE) feature.

MTE is built on top of the ARMv8.0 virtual address tagging TBI (Top Byte
Ignore) feature and allows software to access a 4-bit allocation tag for
each 16-byte granule in the physical address space.  A logical tag is
derived from bits 59-56 of the virtual address used for the memory access.
A CPU with MTE enabled will compare the logical tag against the
allocation tag and potentially raise an tag check fault on mismatch,
subject to system registers configuration.

Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag
check fault on store operation only.

Using this feature (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY), introduce KASAN write-only mode
which restricts KASAN check write (store) operation only.  This mode omits
KASAN check for read (fetch/load) operation.  Therefore, it might be used
not only debugging purpose but also in normal environment.


This patch (of 2):

Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
raise of tag check fault on store operation only.  Introduce KASAN write
only mode based on this feature.

KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and
omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory.  So it
might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal enviroment to
check memory safty.

This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments.  When
"kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise KASAN
checks all operations.

This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like
ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags() with
other function together.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: D Scott Phillips &lt;scott@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya &lt;hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Cc: levi.yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags", v8.

Hardware tag based KASAN is implemented using the Memory Tagging Extension
(MTE) feature.

MTE is built on top of the ARMv8.0 virtual address tagging TBI (Top Byte
Ignore) feature and allows software to access a 4-bit allocation tag for
each 16-byte granule in the physical address space.  A logical tag is
derived from bits 59-56 of the virtual address used for the memory access.
A CPU with MTE enabled will compare the logical tag against the
allocation tag and potentially raise an tag check fault on mismatch,
subject to system registers configuration.

Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag
check fault on store operation only.

Using this feature (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY), introduce KASAN write-only mode
which restricts KASAN check write (store) operation only.  This mode omits
KASAN check for read (fetch/load) operation.  Therefore, it might be used
not only debugging purpose but also in normal environment.


This patch (of 2):

Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
raise of tag check fault on store operation only.  Introduce KASAN write
only mode based on this feature.

KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and
omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory.  So it
might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal enviroment to
check memory safty.

This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments.  When
"kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise KASAN
checks all operations.

This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like
ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags() with
other function together.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: D Scott Phillips &lt;scott@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya &lt;hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Cc: levi.yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/kernel: Support store-only mte tag check</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T17:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yeoreum Yun</name>
<email>yeoreum.yun@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-18T09:29:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4d51ff5bba00a13ca9b0b24883fa7adb07a167fc'/>
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Introduce new flag -- MTE_CTRL_STORE_ONLY used to set store-only tag check.
This flag isn't overridden by prefered tcf flag setting but set together
with prefered setting of way to report tag check fault.

Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618092957.2069907-4-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Introduce new flag -- MTE_CTRL_STORE_ONLY used to set store-only tag check.
This flag isn't overridden by prefered tcf flag setting but set together
with prefered setting of way to report tag check fault.

Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618092957.2069907-4-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlb: arm64: add mte support</title>
<updated>2024-10-16T13:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T22:52:19+00:00</published>
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<id>25c17c4b55def92a01e3eecc9c775a6ee25ca20f</id>
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Enable MTE support for hugetlb.

The MTE page flags will be set on the folio only.  When copying
hugetlb folio (for example, CoW), the tags for all subpages will be copied
when copying the first subpage.

When freeing hugetlb folio, the MTE flags will be cleared.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001225220.271178-1-yang@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Enable MTE support for hugetlb.

The MTE page flags will be set on the folio only.  When copying
hugetlb folio (for example, CoW), the tags for all subpages will be copied
when copying the first subpage.

When freeing hugetlb folio, the MTE flags will be cleared.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001225220.271178-1-yang@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: start using 'asm goto' for get_user() when available</title>
<updated>2024-06-19T19:33:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-09T17:11:04+00:00</published>
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This generates noticeably better code with compilers that support it,
since we don't need to test the error register etc, the exception just
jumps to the error handling directly.

Note that this also marks SW_TTBR0_PAN incompatible with KCSAN support,
since KCSAN wants to save and restore the user access state.

KCSAN and SW_TTBR0_PAN were probably always incompatible, but it became
obvious only when implementing the unsafe user access functions.  At
that point the default empty user_access_save/restore() functions
weren't provided by the default fallback functions.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This generates noticeably better code with compilers that support it,
since we don't need to test the error register etc, the exception just
jumps to the error handling directly.

Note that this also marks SW_TTBR0_PAN incompatible with KCSAN support,
since KCSAN wants to save and restore the user access state.

KCSAN and SW_TTBR0_PAN were probably always incompatible, but it became
obvious only when implementing the unsafe user access functions.  At
that point the default empty user_access_save/restore() functions
weren't provided by the default fallback functions.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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