Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: document the boot requirements for MTE

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 12:20:15 EST


On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:29:12 -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> When booting the kernel we access system registers such as GCR_EL1
> if MTE is supported. These accesses are defined to trap to EL3 if
> SCR_EL3.ATA is disabled. Furthermore, tag accesses will not behave
> as expected if SCR_EL3.ATA is not set, or if HCR_EL2.ATA is not set
> and we were booted at EL1. Therefore, require that these bits are
> enabled when appropriate.
>
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: document the boot requirements for MTE
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/b6ba1a89f73f

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Catalin