[PATCH v3 4/7] arm64: mte: Lock a page for MTE tag initialisation

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> On 10/08/2022 20:30, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
> > index a78c1db23c68..cd5ad0936e16 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ bool mte_restore_tags(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
> >  	if (!tags)
> >  		return false;
> >  
> > +	/* racing tag restoring? */
> > +	if (!try_page_mte_tagging(page))
> > +		return false;
> >  	mte_restore_page_tags(page_address(page), tags);
> 
> I feel like adding a "set_page_mte_tagged(page);" in here would avoid
> the need for the comments about mte_restore_tags() taking the lock.

Good point. I think I blindly followed the set_bit() places but it makes
sense to move the bit setting to mte_restore_tags().

Thanks for the review.

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Catalin