From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>,
Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 19/25] arm64: mte: Add PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}MTETAGS support
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:16:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701171549.GF5191@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7fd536af-f9fa-aa10-a4c3-001e80dd7d7b@linaro.org>
Hi Luis,
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:10:10PM -0300, Luis Machado wrote:
> I have one point below I wanted to clarify regarding
> PEEKMTETAGS/POKEMTETAGS.
>
> But before that, I've pushed v2 of the MTE series for GDB here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/users/luisgpm/aarch64-mte-v2
>
> That series adds sctlr and gcr registers to the NT_ARM_MTE (still using a
> dummy value of 0x407) register set. It would be nice if the Linux Kernel and
> the debuggers were in sync in terms of supporting this new register set. GDB
> assumes the register set exists if HWCAP2_MTE is there.
>
> So, if we want to adjust the register set, we should probably consider doing
> that now. That prevents the situation where debuggers would need to do
> another check to confirm NT_ARM_MTE is exported. I'd rather avoid that.
I'm happy to do this before merging, though we need to agree on the
semantics.
Do you need both read and write access? Also wondering whether the
prctl() value would be a better option than the raw register bits (well,
not entirely raw, masking out the irrelevant part).
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-01 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 17:52 [PATCH v5 00/25] arm64: Memory Tagging Extension user-space support Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 01/25] arm64: mte: system register definitions Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 02/25] arm64: mte: CPU feature detection and initial sysreg configuration Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 03/25] arm64: mte: Use Normal Tagged attributes for the linear map Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 04/25] arm64: mte: Add specific SIGSEGV codes Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 05/25] arm64: mte: Handle synchronous and asynchronous tag check faults Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 06/25] mm: Add PG_ARCH_2 page flag Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:33 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 18:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-25 17:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-01 17:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 07/25] arm64: mte: Clear the tags when a page is mapped in user-space with PROT_MTE Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 08/25] arm64: mte: Tags-aware copy_{user_,}highpage() implementations Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 09/25] arm64: Avoid unnecessary clear_user_page() indirection Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 10/25] arm64: mte: Tags-aware aware memcmp_pages() implementation Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 11/25] mm: Introduce arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-25 17:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 12/25] arm64: mte: Add PROT_MTE support to mmap() and mprotect() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 13/25] mm: Introduce arch_validate_flags() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:37 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 14/25] arm64: mte: Validate the PROT_MTE request via arch_validate_flags() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 15/25] mm: Allow arm64 mmap(PROT_MTE) on RAM-based files Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:42 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 16/25] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 17/25] arm64: mte: Allow user control of the generated random tags " Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 18/25] arm64: mte: Restore the GCR_EL1 register after a suspend Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 19/25] arm64: mte: Add PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}MTETAGS support Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 17:10 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-01 17:16 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-07-01 17:32 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-03 13:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-07-03 10:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 20/25] fs: Handle intra-page faults in copy_mount_options() Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 21/25] mm: Add arch hooks for saving/restoring tags Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 18:45 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-25 9:04 ` Steven Price
2020-06-25 12:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 22/25] arm64: mte: Enable swap of tagged pages Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 11:37 ` Steven Price
2020-06-25 11:59 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 23/25] arm64: mte: Save tags when hibernating Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 24/25] arm64: mte: Kconfig entry Catalin Marinas
2020-06-24 17:52 ` [PATCH v5 25/25] arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation Catalin Marinas
2020-06-25 12:22 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-06-26 14:54 ` Catalin Marinas
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