On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 3:22 PM Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frasc...@arm.com> wrote: > > This patchset implements the asynchronous mode support for ARMv8.5-A > Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), which is a debugging feature that allows > to detect with the help of the architecture the C and C++ programmatic > memory errors like buffer overflow, use-after-free, use-after-return, etc. > > MTE is built on top of the AArch64 v8.0 virtual address tagging TBI > (Top Byte Ignore) feature and allows a task to set a 4 bit tag on any > subset of its address space that is multiple of a 16 bytes granule. MTE > is based on a lock-key mechanism where the lock is the tag associated to > the physical memory and the key is the tag associated to the virtual > address. > When MTE is enabled and tags are set for ranges of address space of a task, > the PE will compare the tag related to the physical memory with the tag > related to the virtual address (tag check operation). Access to the memory > is granted only if the two tags match. In case of mismatch the PE will raise > an exception. > > The exception can be handled synchronously or asynchronously. When the > asynchronous mode is enabled: > - Upon fault the PE updates the TFSR_EL1 register. > - The kernel detects the change during one of the following: > - Context switching > - Return to user/EL0 > - Kernel entry from EL1 > - Kernel exit to EL1 > - If the register has been updated by the PE the kernel clears it and > reports the error. > > The series is based on linux-next/akpm. > > To simplify the testing a tree with the new patches on top has been made > available at [1]. > > [1] https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-vf.git mte/v13.async.akpm
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com> for the series. Thank you, Vincenzo!
