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Commit e6b8f5ad authored by Kristina Martsenko's avatar Kristina Martsenko Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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arm64: documentation: document tagged pointer stack constraints



commit f0e421b1bf7af97f026e1bb8bfe4c5a7a8c08f42 upstream.

Some kernel features don't currently work if a task puts a non-zero
address tag in its stack pointer, frame pointer, or frame record entries
(FP, LR).

For example, with a tagged stack pointer, the kernel can't deliver
signals to the process, and the task is killed instead. As another
example, with a tagged frame pointer or frame records, perf fails to
generate call graphs or resolve symbols.

For now, just document these limitations, instead of finding and fixing
everything that doesn't work, as it's not known if anyone needs to use
tags in these places anyway.

In addition, as requested by Dave Martin, generalize the limitations
into a general kernel address tag policy, and refactor
tagged-pointers.txt to include it.

Fixes: d50240a5 ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e817a7fb
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