From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 00/15] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:50:58 -0700 Message-ID: <8c618cc9-ae68-9769-c5bb-67f1295abc4e@intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrey Konovalov , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas , Vincenzo Frascino , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kees Cook , Yishai Hadas , Felix Kuehling , Alexander Deucher , Christian Koenig , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jens Wiklander , Alex Williamson , Leon Romanovsky , Luc Van Oostenryck , Dave Martin , Khalid Aziz , enh List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 7/23/19 10:58 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > The mmap and mremap (only new_addr) syscalls do not currently accept > tagged addresses. Architectures may interpret the tag as a background > colour for the corresponding vma. What the heck is a "background colour"? :)