Re: [PATCHv9 00/14] Linear Address Masking enabling
From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Oct 06 2022 - 12:42:03 EST
On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 4:48 PM Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Linear Address Masking[1] (LAM) modifies the checking that is applied to
> > 64-bit linear addresses, allowing software to use of the untranslated
> > address bits for metadata.
> >
> > The capability can be used for efficient address sanitizers (ASAN)
> > implementation and for optimizations in virtual machines.
> >
> > The patchset brings support for LAM for userspace addresses. Only LAM_U57 at
> > this time.
> >
> > Please review and consider applying.
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git lam
>
> Not a big deal, but this tree contains LAM_U48 patches, and after
> skipping those the SVM patch does not apply cleanly.
Sorry, forgot to push the update. Pushed now.
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Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov