[PATCH v2 11/27] riscv mmu: teach pte_mkwrite to manufacture shadow stack PTEs

[Deepak Gupta]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 9:46 PM Deepak Gupta <debug at rivosinc.com> wrote:
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> pte_mkwrite creates PTEs with WRITE encodings for underlying arch. Underlying
> arch can have two types of writeable mappings. One that can be written using
> regular store instructions. Another one that can only be written using specialized
> store instructions (like shadow stack stores). pte_mkwrite can select write PTE
> encoding based on VMA range.
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> On riscv, presence of only VM_WRITE in vma->vm_flags means it's a shadow stack.
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> Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug at rivosinc.com>
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> rebase with a30f0ca0fa31cdb2ac3d24b7b5be9e3ae75f4175
>
hmm.. Note to self:
Missed removing this lingering commit message. Will remove it in the
next version.