On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:52:25 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> > > For arm64 MTE support it is necessary to be able to mark pages that > contain user space visible tags that will need to be saved/restored e.g. > when swapped out. > > To support this add a new arch specific flag (PG_ARCH_2) that arch code > can opt into using ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2. > > ... > > --- a/fs/proc/page.c > +++ b/fs/proc/page.c > @@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page) > u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_PRIVATE_2, PG_private_2); > u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_OWNER_PRIVATE, PG_owner_priv_1); > u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_ARCH, PG_arch_1); > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2 > + u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_ARCH_2, PG_arch_2); > +#endif Do we need CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_2? What would be the downside to giving every architecture a PG_arch_2, but only arm64 uses it (at present)?
