Hi Sami, On 12/02/2020 20:59, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:57 AM James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 28/01/2020 18:49, Sami Tolvanen wrote: >>> This change adds per-CPU shadow call stacks for the SDEI handler. >>> Similarly to how the kernel stacks are handled, we add separate shadow >>> stacks for normal and critical events. >> >> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> >> Tested-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/scs.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/scs.c >>> index eaadf5430baa..dddb7c56518b 100644 >>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/scs.c >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/scs.c >> >>> +static int scs_alloc_percpu(unsigned long * __percpu *ptr, int cpu) >>> +{ >>> + unsigned long *p; >>> + >>> + p = __vmalloc_node_range(PAGE_SIZE, SCS_SIZE, >>> + VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END, >>> + GFP_SCS, PAGE_KERNEL, >>> + 0, cpu_to_node(cpu), >>> + __builtin_return_address(0)); >> >> (What makes this arch specific? arm64 has its own calls like this for the regular vmap >> stacks because it plays tricks with the alignment. Here the alignment requirement comes >> from the core SCS code... Would another architecture implement these >> scs_alloc_percpu()/scs_free_percpu() differently?) > > You are correct, these aren't necessarily specific to arm64. However, > right now, we are not allocating per-CPU shadow stacks anywhere else, > so this was a natural place for the helper functions. Fair enough, > Would you prefer me to move these to kernel/scs.c instead? I have no preference, as long as they don't get duplicated later! Thanks, James