[PATCH] arm64/mm: Implement pte_po_index() for permission overlay index

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Apr 14 21:59:42 PDT 2025



On 4/14/25 18:58, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 10/04/2025 06:20, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
>>
>> Previously pte_access_permitted() used FIELD_GET() directly to retrieve
>> the permission overlay index from the pte. However, FIELD_GET() doesn't
>> work for 128 bit quanitites. Since we are about to add support for D128
>> pgtables, let's create a specific helper, pte_po_index() which can do
>> the required mask and shift regardless of the data type width.
>>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
>> ---
>> This patch applies on v6.15-rc1
>>
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 +
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h  | 2 ++
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h       | 2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
>> index f3b77deedfa2..028a164924df 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
>> @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@
>>  #define PTE_PO_IDX_2	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 62)
>>  
>>  #define PTE_PO_IDX_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(62, 60)
>> +#define PTE_PO_IDX_SHIFT	60
>>  
>>  
>>  /*
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
>> index 7830d031742e..b53bc241e4e7 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
>> @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ static inline bool __pure lpa2_is_enabled(void)
>>  	((pte & BIT(PTE_PI_IDX_1)) >> (PTE_PI_IDX_1 - 1)) | \
>>  	((pte & BIT(PTE_PI_IDX_0)) >> (PTE_PI_IDX_0 - 0)))
>>  
>> +#define pte_po_index(pte)	((pte_val(pte) & PTE_PO_IDX_MASK) >> PTE_PO_IDX_SHIFT)
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * Page types used via Permission Indirection Extension (PIE). PIE uses
>>   * the USER, DBM, PXN and UXN bits to to generate an index which is used
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> index d3b538be1500..41979c0e6c21 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static inline bool por_el0_allows_pkey(u8 pkey, bool write, bool execute)
>>  	(((pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_USER)) == (PTE_VALID | PTE_USER)) && (!(write) || pte_write(pte)))
>>  #define pte_access_permitted(pte, write) \
>>  	(pte_access_permitted_no_overlay(pte, write) && \
>> -	por_el0_allows_pkey(FIELD_GET(PTE_PO_IDX_MASK, pte_val(pte)), write, false))
>> +	por_el0_allows_pkey(pte_po_index(pte), write, false))
>>  #define pmd_access_permitted(pmd, write) \
>>  	(pte_access_permitted(pmd_pte(pmd), (write)))
>>  #define pud_access_permitted(pud, write) \
> 
> kvm also uses PTE_PO_IDX_MASK in compute_s1_overlay_permissions(). Shouldn't we
> be converting that site too?

Just wanted to keep the KVM changes for later but sure, will fold these in.

> 
> ----8<----
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
> index 3a96c96816e9..d9a8ee8e600f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
> @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static void compute_s1_overlay_permissions(struct kvm_vcpu
> *vcpu,
>  {
>         u8 idx, pov_perms, uov_perms;
> 
> -       idx = FIELD_GET(PTE_PO_IDX_MASK, wr->desc);
> +       idx = pte_po_index(__pte(wr->desc));
> 
>         switch (wi->regime) {
>         case TR_EL10:
> ----8<----



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