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<title>docs: arm64: Move arm64 documentation under Documentation/arch/</title>
<updated>2023-06-21T14:51:51+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jonathan Corbet</name>
<email>corbet@lwn.net</email>
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<published>2023-06-12T12:06:39+00:00</published>
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Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.  Move
Documentation/arm64 into arch/ (along with the Chinese equvalent
translations) and fix up documentation references.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hu Haowen &lt;src.res@email.cn&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yantengsi &lt;siyanteng@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.  Move
Documentation/arm64 into arch/ (along with the Chinese equvalent
translations) and fix up documentation references.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hu Haowen &lt;src.res@email.cn&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yantengsi &lt;siyanteng@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<title>arm64: expose FAR_EL1 tag bits in siginfo</title>
<updated>2020-11-23T18:17:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-20T20:33:46+00:00</published>
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The kernel currently clears the tag bits (i.e. bits 56-63) in the fault
address exposed via siginfo.si_addr and sigcontext.fault_address. However,
the tag bits may be needed by tools in order to accurately diagnose
memory errors, such as HWASan [1] or future tools based on the Memory
Tagging Extension (MTE).

Expose these bits via the arch_untagged_si_addr mechanism, so that
they are only exposed to signal handlers with the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS
flag set.

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ia8876bad8c798e0a32df7c2ce1256c4771c81446
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0010296597784267472fa13b39f8238d87a72cf8.1605904350.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The kernel currently clears the tag bits (i.e. bits 56-63) in the fault
address exposed via siginfo.si_addr and sigcontext.fault_address. However,
the tag bits may be needed by tools in order to accurately diagnose
memory errors, such as HWASan [1] or future tools based on the Memory
Tagging Extension (MTE).

Expose these bits via the arch_untagged_si_addr mechanism, so that
they are only exposed to signal handlers with the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS
flag set.

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ia8876bad8c798e0a32df7c2ce1256c4771c81446
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0010296597784267472fa13b39f8238d87a72cf8.1605904350.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Relax Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst</title>
<updated>2019-08-27T17:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
<email>vincenzo.frascino@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-23T16:37:17+00:00</published>
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On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace
(EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero
top byte. However, such pointers were not allowed at the user-kernel
syscall ABI boundary.

With the Tagged Address ABI patchset, it is now possible to pass tagged
pointers to the syscalls. Relax the requirements described in
tagged-pointers.rst to be compliant with the behaviours guaranteed by
the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy &lt;szabolcs.nagy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace
(EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero
top byte. However, such pointers were not allowed at the user-kernel
syscall ABI boundary.

With the Tagged Address ABI patchset, it is now possible to pass tagged
pointers to the syscalls. Relax the requirements described in
tagged-pointers.rst to be compliant with the behaviours guaranteed by
the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy &lt;szabolcs.nagy@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>docs: arm64: convert docs to ReST and rename to .rst</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T20:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-12T17:52:38+00:00</published>
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The documentation is in a format that is very close to ReST format.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fixing tables markups;
  - adding some lists markups;
  - marking literal blocks;
  - adjust some title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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The documentation is in a format that is very close to ReST format.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fixing tables markups;
  - adding some lists markups;
  - marking literal blocks;
  - adjust some title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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