On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:07PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other than 0x00) as syscall arguments.
This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory syscalls: get_mempolicy, madvise, mbind, mincore, mlock, mlock2, mprotect, mremap, msync, munlock.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@google.com
I would add in the commit log (and possibly in the code with a comment) that mremap() and mmap() do not currently accept tagged hint addresses. Architectures may interpret the hint tag as a background colour for the corresponding vma. With this:
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com