On 07/10/2018 03:26 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > @@ -1193,6 +1195,8 @@ static int do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd, > pte_t entry; > entry = mk_pte(pages[i], vma->vm_page_prot); > entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma); > + if (is_shstk_mapping(vma->vm_flags)) > + entry = pte_mkdirty_shstk(entry); Peter Z was pointing out that we should get rid of all this generic code manipulation. We might not easily be able to do it *all*, but we can do better than what we've got here. Basically, if you have code outside of arch/x86 in your patch set that refers to shadow stacks, you should consider it a bug (for now), especially if you have to hack .c files. For instance, in the code above, you could move the is_shstk_mapping() into: static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) pte = pte_mkwrite(pte); + pte = arch_pte_mkwrite(pte, vma); + return pte; } ... and add an arch callback that does: static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { if (!is_shstk_mapping(vma->vm_flags)) return pte; WARN_ON(... pte bits incompatible with shadow stacks?); /* Lots of comments of course */ entry = pte_mkdirty_shstk(entry); } This is just one example. You are probably going to need a couple of similar things. Just remember: the bar is very high to make changes to .c files outside of arch/x86. You can do a _bit_ more in non-x86 headers, but you have the most freedom to patch what you want as long as it's in arch/x86.