mirror of
https://github.com/hardkernel/linux.git
synced 2026-06-06 02:50:49 +09:00
766121ba5d
The architecture provides an asymmetric mode for MTE where tag mismatches are checked asynchronously for stores but synchronously for loads. Allow userspace processes to select this and make it available as a default mode via the existing per-CPU sysfs interface. Since there PR_MTE_TCF_ values are a bitmask (allowing the kernel to choose between the multiple modes) and there are no free bits adjacent to the existing PR_MTE_TCF_ bits the set of bits used to specify the mode becomes disjoint. Programs using the new interface should be aware of this and programs that do not use it will not see any change in behaviour. When userspace requests two possible modes but the system default for the CPU is the third mode (eg, default is synchronous but userspace requests either asynchronous or asymmetric) the preference order is: ASYMM > ASYNC > SYNC This situation is not currently possible since there are only two modes and it is mandatory to have a system default so there could be no ambiguity and there is no ABI change. The chosen order is basically arbitrary as we do not have a clear metric for what is better here. If userspace requests specifically asymmetric mode via the prctl() and the system does not support it then we will return an error, this mirrors how we handle the case where userspace enables MTE on a system that does not support MTE at all and the behaviour that will be seen if running on an older kernel that does not support userspace use of asymmetric mode. Attempts to set asymmetric mode as the default mode will result in an error if the system does not support it. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com> Tested-by: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216173224.2342152-5-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.