Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.7-A: MTE: Add asymm in-kernel support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Oct 06 2021 - 04:05:39 EST


Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 21:22:48 +0100 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This series implements the in-kernel asymmetric mode support for
> > ARMv8.7-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.
>
> I'm not sure which subsystem tree you were targeting here, so I grabbed
> them. I'll drop the -mm copy if this material pops up in a linux-next
> via a different tree.

I'll queue 'em via the arm64 tree, as we already have some MTE work over
there and most of this series seems to be arch changes.

Cheers,

Will