On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:11 PM Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brod...@arm.com> wrote: > > On 31/07/2019 17:50, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On 7/23/19 10:58 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > >> The mmap and mremap (only new_addr) syscalls do not currently accept > >> tagged addresses. Architectures may interpret the tag as a background > >> colour for the corresponding vma. > > What the heck is a "background colour"? :) > > Good point, this is some jargon that we started using for MTE, the idea being > that > the kernel could set a tag value (specified during mmap()) as "background > colour" for > anonymous pages allocated in that range. > > Anyway, this patch series is not about MTE. Andrey, for v20 (if any), I think > it's > best to drop this last sentence to avoid any confusion.
Sure, thanks! > > Kevin _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
