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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst index b540178a93f8..7b99c8f428eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst @@ -77,14 +77,20 @@ configurable behaviours: address is unknown). The user can select the above modes, per thread, using the -``prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, flags, 0, 0, 0)`` system call where -``flags`` contain one of the following values in the ``PR_MTE_TCF_MASK`` +``prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, flags, 0, 0, 0)`` system call where ``flags`` +contains any number of the following values in the ``PR_MTE_TCF_MASK`` bit-field: -- ``PR_MTE_TCF_NONE`` - *Ignore* tag check faults +- ``PR_MTE_TCF_NONE`` - *Ignore* tag check faults + (ignored if combined with other options) - ``PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC`` - *Synchronous* tag check fault mode - ``PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC`` - *Asynchronous* tag check fault mode +If no modes are specified, tag check faults are ignored. If a single +mode is specified, the program will run in that mode. If multiple +modes are specified, the mode is selected as described in the "Per-CPU +preferred tag checking modes" section below. + The current tag check fault mode can be read using the ``prctl(PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, 0, 0, 0, 0)`` system call. @@ -120,13 +126,39 @@ in the ``PR_MTE_TAG_MASK`` bit-field. interface provides an include mask. An include mask of ``0`` (exclusion mask ``0xffff``) results in the CPU always generating tag ``0``. +Per-CPU preferred tag checking mode +----------------------------------- + +On some CPUs the performance of MTE in stricter tag checking modes +is similar to that of less strict tag checking modes. This makes it +worthwhile to enable stricter checks on those CPUs when a less strict +checking mode is requested, in order to gain the error detection +benefits of the stricter checks without the performance downsides. To +support this scenario, a privileged user may configure a stricter +tag checking mode as the CPU's preferred tag checking mode. + +The preferred tag checking mode for each CPU is controlled by +``/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/mte_tcf_preferred``, to which a +privileged user may write the value ``async`` or ``sync``. The default +preferred mode for each CPU is ``async``. + +To allow a program to potentially run in the CPU's preferred tag +checking mode, the user program may set multiple tag check fault mode +bits in the ``flags`` argument to the ``prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, +flags, 0, 0, 0)`` system call. If the CPU's preferred tag checking +mode is in the task's set of provided tag checking modes (this will +always be the case at present because the kernel only supports two +tag checking modes, but future kernels may support more modes), that +mode will be selected. Otherwise, one of the modes in the task's mode +set will be selected in a currently unspecified manner. + Initial process state --------------------- On ``execve()``, the new process has the following configuration: - ``PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE`` set to 0 (disabled) -- Tag checking mode set to ``PR_MTE_TCF_NONE`` +- No tag checking modes are selected (tag check faults ignored) - ``PR_MTE_TAG_MASK`` set to 0 (all tags excluded) - ``PSTATE.TCO`` set to 0 - ``PROT_MTE`` not set on any of the initial memory maps @@ -251,11 +283,13 @@ Example of correct usage return EXIT_FAILURE; /* - * Enable the tagged address ABI, synchronous MTE tag check faults and - * allow all non-zero tags in the randomly generated set. + * Enable the tagged address ABI, synchronous or asynchronous MTE + * tag check faults (based on per-CPU preference) and allow all + * non-zero tags in the randomly generated set. */ if (prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, - PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE | PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC | (0xfffe << PR_MTE_TAG_SHIFT), + PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE | PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC | PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC | + (0xfffe << PR_MTE_TAG_SHIFT), 0, 0, 0)) { perror("prctl() failed"); return EXIT_FAILURE; |