Add a note that work on passing tagged user pointers to the kernel via syscalls has started, but might not be complete yet.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@google.com --- Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt index a25a99e82bb1..361481283f00 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ 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.
-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 +Some initial work for supporting non-zero address tags passed to the +kernel via system calls has been done, but the kernel doesn't provide +any guarantees at this point. Using a non-zero address tag for sp is strongly discouraged.
Programs maintaining a frame pointer and frame records that use non-zero