On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:43:34PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > +/* > + * Assign allocation tags for a region of memory based on the pointer tag. > + * Note: The address must be non-NULL and MTE_GRANULE_SIZE aligned and > + * size must be non-zero and MTE_GRANULE_SIZE aligned. > + */ OK, so we rely on the caller to sanity-check the range. Fine by me but I can see (un)poison_range() only doing this for the size. Do we guarantee that the start address is aligned? > +static __always_inline void mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag) > +{ > + u64 curr, end; > + > + if (!size) > + return; > + > + curr = (u64)__tag_set(addr, tag); > + end = curr + size; > + > + do { > + /* > + * 'asm volatile' is required to prevent the compiler to move > + * the statement outside of the loop. > + */ > + asm volatile(__MTE_PREAMBLE "stg %0, [%0]" > + : > + : "r" (curr) > + : "memory"); > + > + curr += MTE_GRANULE_SIZE; > + } while (curr != end); > +} > > void mte_enable_kernel_sync(void); > void mte_enable_kernel_async(void); > @@ -47,10 +95,12 @@ static inline u8 mte_get_mem_tag(void *addr) > { > return 0xFF; > } > + > static inline u8 mte_get_random_tag(void) > { > return 0xFF; > } > + > static inline void *mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag) This function used to return a pointer and that's what the dummy static inline does here. However, the new mte_set_mem_tag_range() doesn't return anything. We should have consistency between the two (the new static void definition is fine by me). Otherwise the patch looks fine. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>