Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) feature includes a new > type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some > unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function > properly. ... > --- > Hi Non-x86 Arch’s, > > x86 has a feature that allows for the creation of a special type of > writable memory (shadow stack) that is only writable in limited specific > ways. Previously, changes were proposed to core MM code to teach it to > decide when to create normally writable memory or the special shadow stack > writable memory, but David Hildenbrand suggested[0] to change > pXX_mkwrite() to take a VMA, so awareness of shadow stack memory can be > moved into x86 code. > > Since pXX_mkwrite() is defined in every arch, it requires some tree-wide > changes. So that is why you are seeing some patches out of a big x86 > series pop up in your arch mailing list. There is no functional change. > After this refactor, the shadow stack series goes on to use the arch > helpers to push shadow stack memory details inside arch/x86. ... > --- > Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst | 9 ++++++--- > arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 +++++- > arch/arc/include/asm/hugepage.h | 2 +- > arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable-bits-arcv2.h | 7 ++++++- > arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 7 ++++++- > arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 ++-- > arch/csky/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/hexagon/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 ++-- > arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgtable.h | 6 +++++- > arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgtable.h | 6 +++++- > arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 +++--- > arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 +++++- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 4 ++-- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/pte-8xx.h | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgtable.h | 2 +- Looks like you discovered the joys of ppc's at-least 5 different MMU implementations, sorry :) Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (powerpc) cheers
