Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.txt

Catalin Marinas
2019-06-13T12:28:21Z

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> > On 12/06/2019 16:35, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 03:21:10PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> > >> + - PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL: can be used to check the status of the Tagged
> > >> + Address ABI.
[...]
> Is there a canonical way to detect whether this whole API/ABI is
> available? (i.e., try to call this prctl / check for an HWCAP bit,
> etc.)

The canonical way is a prctl() call. HWCAP doesn't make sense since it's
not a hardware feature. If you really want a different way of detecting
this (which I don't think it's worth), we can reinstate the AT_FLAGS
bit.

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Catalin