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author | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2020-03-03 16:40:54 -0800 |
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committer | Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> | 2020-03-03 16:40:56 -0800 |
commit | 820d15632ec10bc0cf79595c5a635b795d149520 (patch) | |
tree | 9deb7defafc350a3c74365ebe370634f0406d821 /Documentation/arm64 | |
parent | Merge tag 'arm-soc/for-5.6/defconfig-fixes' of https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux into arm/fixes (diff) | |
parent | arm64: dts: socfpga: agilex: Fix gmac compatible (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'socfpga_dts_fix_for_v5.6_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dinguyen/linux into arm/fixes
arm64: dts: agilex: fix gmac compatible
- The compatible for Agilex GMAC should be "altr,socfpga-stmmac-a10-s10"
* tag 'socfpga_dts_fix_for_v5.6_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dinguyen/linux: (578 commits)
arm64: dts: socfpga: agilex: Fix gmac compatible
Linux 5.6-rc4
KVM: VMX: check descriptor table exits on instruction emulation
ext4: potential crash on allocation error in ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array()
macintosh: therm_windtunnel: fix regression when instantiating devices
jbd2: fix data races at struct journal_head
kvm: x86: Limit the number of "kvm: disabled by bios" messages
KVM: x86: avoid useless copy of cpufreq policy
KVM: allow disabling -Werror
KVM: x86: allow compiling as non-module with W=1
KVM: Pre-allocate 1 cpumask variable per cpu for both pv tlb and pv ipis
KVM: Introduce pv check helpers
KVM: let declaration of kvm_get_running_vcpus match implementation
KVM: SVM: allocate AVIC data structures based on kvm_amd module parameter
MAINTAINERS: Correct Cadence PCI driver path
io_uring: fix 32-bit compatability with sendmsg/recvmsg
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix masking of egress port
mlxsw: pci: Wait longer before accessing the device after reset
sfc: fix timestamp reconstruction at 16-bit rollover points
vsock: fix potential deadlock in transport->release()
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303153509.28248-1-dinguyen@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/memory.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst | 11 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst index 02e02175e6f5..cf03b3290800 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ this logic. As a single binary will need to support both 48-bit and 52-bit VA spaces, the VMEMMAP must be sized large enough for 52-bit VAs and -also must be sized large enought to accommodate a fixed PAGE_OFFSET. +also must be sized large enough to accommodate a fixed PAGE_OFFSET. Most code in the kernel should not need to consider the VA_BITS, for code that does need to know the VA size the variables are diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst index d4a85d535bf9..4a9d9c794ee5 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst @@ -44,8 +44,15 @@ The AArch64 Tagged Address ABI has two stages of relaxation depending how the user addresses are used by the kernel: 1. User addresses not accessed by the kernel but used for address space - management (e.g. ``mmap()``, ``mprotect()``, ``madvise()``). The use - of valid tagged pointers in this context is always allowed. + management (e.g. ``mprotect()``, ``madvise()``). The use of valid + tagged pointers in this context is allowed with the exception of + ``brk()``, ``mmap()`` and the ``new_address`` argument to + ``mremap()`` as these have the potential to alias with existing + user addresses. + + NOTE: This behaviour changed in v5.6 and so some earlier kernels may + incorrectly accept valid tagged pointers for the ``brk()``, + ``mmap()`` and ``mremap()`` system calls. 2. User addresses accessed by the kernel (e.g. ``write()``). This ABI relaxation is disabled by default and the application thread needs to |