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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>
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Vincenzo Frascino 2019-08-23 17:37:17 +01:00 committed by Will Deacon
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@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Passing tagged addresses to the kernel
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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
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