From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
On arm64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit has been always enabled hence
the userspace (EL0) is allowed to set a non-zero value in the
top byte but the resulting pointers are not allowed at the
user-kernel syscall ABI boundary.
With the relaxed ABI proposed in this set, it is now possible to pass
tagged pointers to the syscalls, when these pointers are in memory
ranges obtained by an anonymous (MAP_ANONYMOUS) mmap().
Relax the requirements described in tagged-pointers.rst to be compliant
with the behaviours guaranteed by the ARM64 Tagged Address ABI.
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
[catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx: minor tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst
index 2acdec3ebbeb..82a3eff71a70 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Passing tagged addresses to the kernel
--------------------------------------
All interpretation of userspace memory addresses by the kernel assumes
-an address tag of 0x00.
+an address tag of 0x00, unless the application enables the AArch64
+Tagged Address ABI explicitly.
This includes, but is not limited to, addresses found in:
@@ -33,18 +34,23 @@ This includes, but is not limited to, addresses found in:
- the frame pointer (x29) and frame records, e.g. when interpreting
them to generate a backtrace or call graph.
-Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations may result in an
-error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, or other modes
-of failure.
+Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations when the
+userspace application did not enable the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI may
+result in an error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised,
+or other modes of failure.
-For these reasons, passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via
-system calls is forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is
-strongly discouraged.
+For these reasons, when the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is disabled,
+passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via system calls is
+forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is strongly
+discouraged.
Programs maintaining a frame pointer and frame records that use non-zero
address tags may suffer impaired or inaccurate debug and profiling
visibility.
+The AArch64 Tagged Address ABI description and the guarantees it
+provides can be found in: Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst.
+
Preserving tags
---------------
@@ -59,6 +65,9 @@ be preserved.
The architecture prevents the use of a tagged PC, so the upper byte will
be set to a sign-extension of bit 55 on exception return.
+This behaviour is preserved when the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is
+enabled.
+
Other considerations
--------------------
