From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95C4476694; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.140.110.172 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789393946; cv=none; b=q2xea+M38vjpevWnT0WpoifyIIJPI5TCBCZILblzWN6X7k9BhZfSBfwYUZBB+Hvf9XO673yqE2KJ0gOEqDtx/sTq+2socQhYG0mY4t8fZxoMedJvAx8snc1ixXJPrsoL5dCkxLVw6kpzbKl79zbYcLbIcLeFKFknVsEoaMlc03c= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789393946; c=relaxed/simple; bh=M/GSINSwm6+Et2eyJmmD/tFqPTuI/A1b5T1YgKWiL9c=; h=From:Date:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:References: In-Reply-To:To:Cc; b=f3RR5EhxxuRy2l8CMbiZ9tRm0B7eoknz9/4ybqJB/OV/zCL7FnT48QSEGtzssF5+3BGVajXmbpzMJHcxHctZHF7Vwp1d/e8mTqutMP6IqLa6Deb0eDa9jJzQITRo9TvtmVdHO713eeJko8fN/d4fJjkmY0si+2rO9jfPyRJG4IA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=arm.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=arm.com header.i=@arm.com header.b=l1MXFaUt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.140.110.172 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=arm.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=arm.com header.i=@arm.com header.b="l1MXFaUt" Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C4B1576; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (e142334-100.cambridge.arm.com [10.2.198.93]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C1F373F882; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:52:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=arm.com; s=foss; t=1789393943; bh=M/GSINSwm6+Et2eyJmmD/tFqPTuI/A1b5T1YgKWiL9c=; h=From:Date:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:To:Cc:From; b=l1MXFaUtsScvaXSmDpLzKQ0x5H2a0xG7fjpv0PnXJZhfGml/cb2/NWB6wiGm/2m/W HbtYIf5YprgsmmREN4DpnnSbzRTpl0G8iRLXXwXoBcCYEWBUBfax0si2I2ttMOWuCI JgPXqqlaUmx6uMk6xS6A4rRtyvVaJNKnNht1RaJ0= From: Muhammad Usama Anjum Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:51:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] arm64: use HW PTE accessors in early map_range() Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20260914-pte0_arm-v1-5-bb53b663e396@arm.com> References: <20260914-pte0_arm-v1-0-bb53b663e396@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20260914-pte0_arm-v1-0-bb53b663e396@arm.com> To: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Ard Biesheuvel , Ilias Apalodimas , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Andrey Konovalov , Dmitry Vyukov , Vincenzo Frascino , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Muhammad Usama Anjum X-Mailer: b4 0.16.0 map_range() uses HW PTE pointers to build early translation tables at each level. Directly testing, decoding, or assigning *tbl treats an HW PTE as a SW PTE value, which requires explicit conversion once hw_pte_t becomes distinct. Use __ptep_get() to load a SW PTE value for the empty-entry check and child-table address, and __set_pte_nosync() to convert SW PTE values to HW PTEs on stores. The no-sync helper performs WRITE_ONCE() without adding the completion barriers used by __set_pte(). Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum --- arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_range.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_range.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_range.c index 94f06da76e333..9c4c8060c5df4 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_range.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_range.c @@ -51,19 +51,21 @@ void __init map_range(phys_addr_t *pte, u64 start, u64 end, phys_addr_t pa, while (start < end) { u64 next = min((start | lmask) + 1, PAGE_ALIGN(end)); + pte_t entry = __ptep_get(tbl); if (level < 2 || (level == 2 && (start | next | pa) & lmask)) { /* * This chunk needs a finer grained mapping. Create a * table mapping if necessary and recurse. */ - if (pte_none(*tbl)) { - *tbl = __pte(__phys_to_pte_val(*pte) | + if (pte_none(entry)) { + entry = __pte(__phys_to_pte_val(*pte) | PMD_TYPE_TABLE | PMD_TABLE_UXN); - *pte += PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(pte_t); + __set_pte_nosync(tbl, entry); + *pte += PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(hw_pte_t); } map_range(pte, start, next, pa, prot, level + 1, - (hw_pte_t *)(__pte_to_phys(*tbl) + va_offset), + (hw_pte_t *)(__pte_to_phys(entry) + va_offset), may_use_cont, va_offset); } else { /* @@ -81,7 +83,8 @@ void __init map_range(phys_addr_t *pte, u64 start, u64 end, phys_addr_t pa, protval &= ~PTE_CONT; /* Put down a block or page mapping */ - *tbl = __pte(__phys_to_pte_val(pa) | protval); + entry = __pte(__phys_to_pte_val(pa) | protval); + __set_pte_nosync(tbl, entry); } pa += next - start; start = next; -- 2.47.3