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Commit 92af2b69 authored by Vincenzo Frascino's avatar Vincenzo Frascino Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: Relax Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst



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 <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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