When the Memory Tagging Extension is enabled, two pages are identical only if both their data and tags are identical. Make the generic memcmp_pages() a __weak function and add an arm64-specific implementation which returns non-zero if any of the two pages contain valid MTE tags (PG_mte_tagged set). There isn't much benefit in comparing the tags of two pages since these are normally used for heap allocations and likely to differ anyway. Co-developed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: v4: - Remove page tag comparison. This is not very useful to detect identical pages as long as set_pte_at() can zero the tags on a page without copy-on-write if mapped with PROT_MTE. This can be improved if a real case appears but it's unlikely for heap pages to be identical across multiple processes. - Move the memcmp_pages() function to mte.c. arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/util.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c index 5bf9bbed5a25..5f54fd140610 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/thread_info.h> #include <asm/cpufeature.h> @@ -23,6 +24,31 @@ void mte_sync_tags(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) } } +int memcmp_pages(struct page *page1, struct page *page2) +{ + char *addr1, *addr2; + int ret; + + addr1 = page_address(page1); + addr2 = page_address(page2); + ret = memcmp(addr1, addr2, PAGE_SIZE); + + if (!system_supports_mte() || ret) + return ret; + + /* + * If the page content is identical but at least one of the pages is + * tagged, return non-zero to avoid KSM merging. If only one of the + * pages is tagged, set_pte_at() may zero or change the tags of the + * other page via mte_sync_tags(). + */ + if (test_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page1->flags) || + test_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page2->flags)) + return addr1 != addr2; + + return ret; +} + void flush_mte_state(void) { if (!system_supports_mte()) diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index c63c8e47be57..c856f5fec69d 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen) return res; } -int memcmp_pages(struct page *page1, struct page *page2) +int __weak memcmp_pages(struct page *page1, struct page *page2) { char *addr1, *addr2; int ret;