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On 23.10.23 12:50, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Hyesoo Yu wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:26:36AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> BTW, I suggest for the next iteration we drop MIGRATE_METADATA, only use
>>> CMA and assume that the tag storage itself supports tagging. Hopefully
>>> it makes the patches a bit simpler.
>>
>> I am curious about the plan for the next iteration.
> 
> Alex is working on it.
> 
>> Does tag storage itself supports tagging? Will the following version be unusable
>> if the hardware does not support it? The document of google said that
>> "If this memory is itself mapped as Tagged Normal (which should not happen!)
>> then tag updates on it either raise a fault or do nothing, but never change the
>> contents of any other page."
>> (https://github.com/google/sanitizers/blob/master/mte-dynamic-carveout/spec.md)
>>
>> The support of H/W is very welcome because it is good to make the patches simpler.
>> But if H/W doesn't support it, Can't the new solution be used?
> 
> AFAIK on the current interconnects this is supported but the offsets
> will need to be configured by firmware in such a way that a tag access
> to the tag carve-out range still points to physical RAM, otherwise, as
> per Google's doc, you can get some unexpected behaviour.
> 
> Let's take a simplified example, we have:
> 
>    phys_addr - physical address, linearised, starting from 0
>    ram_size - the size of RAM (also corresponds to the end of PA+1)
> 
> A typical configuration is to designate the top 1/32 of RAM for tags:
> 
>    tag_offset = ram_size - ram_size / 32
>    tag_carveout_start = tag_offset
> 
> The tag address for a given phys_addr is calculated as:
> 
>    tag_addr = phys_addr / 32 + tag_offset
> 
> To keep things simple, we reserve the top 1/(32*32) of the RAM as tag
> storage for the main/reusable tag carveout.
> 
>    tag_carveout2_start = tag_carveout_start / 32 + tag_offset
> 
> This gives us the end of the first reusable carveout:
> 
>    tag_carveout_end = tag_carveout2_start - 1
> 
> and this way in Linux we can have (inclusive ranges):
> 
>    0..(tag_carveout_start-1): normal memory, data only
>    tag_carveout_start..tag_carveout_end: CMA, reused as tags or data
>    tag_carveout2_start..(ram_size-1): reserved for tags (not touched by the OS)
> 
> For this to work, we need the last page in the first carveout to have
> a tag storage within RAM. And, of course, all of the above need to be at
> least 4K aligned.
> 
> The simple configuration of 1/(32*32) of RAM for the second carveout is
> sufficient but not fully utilised. We could be a bit more efficient to
> gain a few more pages. Apart from the page alignment requirements, the
> only strict requirement we need is:
> 
>    tag_carverout2_end < ram_size
> 
> where tag_carveout2_end is the tag storage corresponding to the end of
> the main/reusable carveout, just before tag_carveout2_start:
> 
>    tag_carveout2_end = tag_carveout_end / 32 + tag_offset
> 
> Assuming that my on-paper substitutions are correct, the inequality
> above becomes:
> 
>    tag_offset < (1024 * ram_size + 32) / 1057
> 
> and tag_offset is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE * 32 (so that the
> tag_carveout2_start is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE).
> 
> As a concrete example, for 16GB of RAM starting from 0:
> 
>    tag_offset = 0x3e0060000
>    tag_carverout2_start = 0x3ff063000
> 
> Without the optimal placement, the default tag_offset of top 1/32 of RAM
> would have been:
> 
>    tag_offset = 0x3e0000000
>    tag_carveou2_start = 0x3ff000000
> 
> so an extra 396KB gained with optimal placement (out of 16G, not sure
> it's worth).
> 
> One can put the calculations in some python script to get the optimal
> tag offset in case I got something wrong on paper.

I followed what you are saying, but I didn't quite read the following 
clearly stated in your calculations: Using this model, how much memory 
would you be able to reuse, and how much not?

I suspect you would *not* be able to reuse "1/(32*32)" [second 
carve-out] but be able to reuse "1/32 - 1/(32*32)" [first carve-out] or 
am I completely off?

Further, (just thinking about it) I assume you've taken care of the 
condition that memory cannot self-host it's own tag memory. So that 
cannot happen in the model proposed here, right?

Anyhow, happy to see that we might be able to make it work just by 
mostly reusing existing CMA.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb