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| author |   Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> | 2019-08-23 17:37:17 +0100 |
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| committer |   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> | 2019-08-27 18:16:20 +0100 |
| commit | 92af2b696119e491a95d77acdd8832b582d300d4 (patch) | |
| tree | fccf2394ba5784c978d80758bef60bab04f8ca5f /Documentation/arm64 | |
| parent | arm64: Add tagged-address-abi.rst to index.rst (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-92af2b696119e491a95d77acdd8832b582d300d4.tar.xz linux-dev-92af2b696119e491a95d77acdd8832b582d300d4.zip | |
arm64: Relax Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.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. However, such pointers were not allowed at the user-kernel
syscall ABI boundary.
With the Tagged Address ABI patchset, it is now possible to pass tagged
pointers to the syscalls. Relax the requirements described in
tagged-pointers.rst to be compliant with the behaviours guaranteed by
the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI.
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst index 2acdec3ebbeb..eab4323609b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Passing tagged addresses to the kernel -------------------------------------- All interpretation of userspace memory addresses by the kernel assumes -an address tag of 0x00. +an address tag of 0x00, unless the application enables the AArch64 +Tagged Address ABI explicitly +(Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst). This includes, but is not limited to, addresses found in: @@ -33,13 +35,15 @@ This includes, but is not limited to, addresses found in: - the frame pointer (x29) and frame records, e.g. when interpreting them to generate a backtrace or call graph. -Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations may result in an -error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, or other modes -of failure. +Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations when the +userspace application did not enable the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI may +result in an error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, +or other modes of failure. -For these reasons, passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via -system calls is forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is -strongly discouraged. +For these reasons, when the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is disabled, +passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via system calls is +forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is strongly +discouraged. Programs maintaining a frame pointer and frame records that use non-zero address tags may suffer impaired or inaccurate debug and profiling @@ -59,6 +63,9 @@ be preserved. The architecture prevents the use of a tagged PC, so the upper byte will be set to a sign-extension of bit 55 on exception return. +This behaviour is maintained when the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is +enabled. + Other considerations -------------------- |