arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst
authorVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:47:29 +0000 (17:47 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:32:26 +0000 (12:32 +0100)
commite1b832503e8f29ea6e20c30db9c3176576c0fc78
tree73323efe1749217bc201471c52b957ea3777c830
parent413235fcedc7f61e925fe9818bc3f5eff8ad2494
arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst

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: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.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>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst [new file with mode: 0644]