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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-20 17:18:51 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-20 17:18:51 +0400 |
| commit | dcb30e659287a6b40dafed1362532da42ec27229 (patch) | |
| tree | b5f74a4b605c59bcef144cbe248879b00e99690c /Documentation | |
| parent | 7b9e3a6ac00be4f3d654a711573b1794b046c22f (diff) | |
| parent | 25804e6a96681d5d2142058948e218999e4f547c (diff) | |
| download | linux-dcb30e659287a6b40dafed1362532da42ec27229.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'arm64-stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64
Pull ARM64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:
- Compat register fault reporting fix
- Documentation clarification on tagged pointers
- hwcap widened to 64-bit (user space already reading it as 64-bit)
* tag 'arm64-stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64:
arm64: Widen hwcap to be 64 bit
arm64: Correctly report LR and SP for compat tasks
arm64: documentation: tighten up tagged pointer documentation
arm64: Make do_bad_area() function static
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt index 264e9841563a..d9995f1f51b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt @@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ this byte for application use, with the following caveats: parameters containing user virtual addresses *must* have their top byte cleared before trapping to the kernel. - (2) Tags are not guaranteed to be preserved when delivering - signals. This means that signal handlers in applications - making use of tags cannot rely on the tag information for - user virtual addresses being maintained for fields inside - siginfo_t. One exception to this rule is for signals raised - in response to debug exceptions, where the tag information + (2) Non-zero tags are not preserved when delivering signals. + This means that signal handlers in applications making use + of tags cannot rely on the tag information for user virtual + addresses being maintained for fields inside siginfo_t. + One exception to this rule is for signals raised in response + to watchpoint debug exceptions, where the tag information will be preserved. (3) Special care should be taken when using tagged pointers, since it is likely that C compilers will not hazard two - addresses differing only in the upper bits. + virtual addresses differing only in the upper byte. 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. |