Re: [PATCH 4/5] arm64: mte: Add asymmetric mode support

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Sep 20 2021 - 11:32:29 EST


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 09:14:23AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> MTE provides an asymmetric mode for detecting tag exceptions. In
> particular, when such a mode is present, the CPU triggers a fault
> on a tag mismatch during a load operation and asynchronously updates
> a register when a tag mismatch is detected during a store operation.
>
> Add support for MTE asymmetric mode.
>
> Note: If the CPU does not support MTE asymmetric mode the kernel falls
> back on synchronous mode which is the default for kasan=on.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>