arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0
TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with various pieces of metadata. This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using tagged virtual addresses. Signed-off-by:Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Git-commit: d50240a5f6ceaf690a77b0fccb17be51cfa151c2 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Signed-off-by:
Ian Maund <imaund@codeaurora.org>
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