Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support
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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-01-19 13:23:43
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 06:30:29PM +0000, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
MTE provides an asynchronous mode for detecting tag exceptions. In particular instead of triggering a fault the arm64 core updates a register which is checked by the kernel after the asynchronous tag check fault has occurred. Add support for MTE asynchronous mode. The exception handling mechanism will be added with a future patch. Note: KASAN HW activates async mode via kasan.mode kernel parameter. The default mode is set to synchronous. The code that verifies the status of TFSR_EL1 will be added with a future patch. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
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