arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:28:04 +0000 (16:28 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:18:02 +0000 (10:18 +0100)
TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the
top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in
standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with
various pieces of metadata.

This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to
Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using
tagged virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
arch/arm64/mm/proc.S

Simple merge
Simple merge