[PATCH] arm64/mte: Clarify mode reported by PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Feb 15 15:18:24 PST 2022


On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:03:23 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> With the current wording readers might infer that PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
> will report the mode currently active in the thread however this is not the
> actual behaviour, instead all modes currently selected by the process will
> be reported with the mode used depending on the combination of the
> requested modes and the default set for the current CPU. This has been the
> case since 433c38f40f6a81 ("arm64: mte: change ASYNC and SYNC TCF settings
> into bitfields"), before that we did not allow more than one mode to be
> requested simultaneously.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/docs), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/mte: Clarify mode reported by PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/4c022f57ad95

Cheers,
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Will

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