Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst

Will Deacon
2019-08-21T17:35:01Z

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 05:47:29PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
>
> On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace
> (EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero
> top byte. Introduce the document describing the relaxation of the
> syscall ABI that allows userspace to pass certain tagged pointers to
> kernel syscalls.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 156 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst

Thanks, I'll pick this on up.

Will