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arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:28:04 +0000 (16:28 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:18:02 +0000 (10:18 +0100)
commit599a78c764234f74fd3cdb1e110a643f98ab1619
tree843603100f6987bf50a4e40713121c1e2a323b7f
parent222cba65d5e4af8eb483c2b9ba71828a359abb2e
arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0

TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the
top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in
standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with
various pieces of metadata.

This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to
Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using
tagged virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
arch/arm64/mm/proc.S