[PATCH] Documentation: document /proc api for arm64 MTE vm flags
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Nov 20 17:24:13 EST 2020
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:00:03AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:44:09 +0000
> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:19:40AM +0000, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > > Document that /proc/PID/smaps shows PROT_MTE settings in VmFlags.
> > > Support for this was introduced in
> > >
> > > commit 9f3419315f3cdc41a7318e4d50ba18a592b30c8c
> > > arm64: mte: Add PROT_MTE support to mmap() and mprotect()
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy at arm.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > > Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > > index 533c79e8d2cd..e5fa972d4c76 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> > > @@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ encoded manner. The codes are the following:
> > > nh no huge page advise flag
> > > mg mergable advise flag
> > > bt arm64 BTI guarded page
> > > + mt arm64 MTE allocation tags are enabled
> > > == =======================================
> > >
> > > Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will
> >
> > Are you ok with picking up this patch (it can be left for 5.11) or
> > should I queue it in the arm64 tree?
>
> It wasn't sent to me, so it wasn't on my radar. Up to you, I'm happy to
> grab it if you'd prefer.
Please do grab it. Thanks.
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Catalin
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