[PATCH] arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface

Evgenii Stepanov eugenis at google.com
Tue Mar 8 13:58:10 PST 2022


On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 6:22 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> Just putting this proposal out there as a concrete patch, I'm not sure
> that it's actually the best option however even if it's not what we end
> up going for longer term we may wish to apply it just now since we're
> getting near to the merge window and it means we don't add anything to
> the prctl() ABI this release.  It'd mean we could still get some support
> for asymmetric mode in userspace processes while giving us a cleaner
> slate to figure out what we want to do with the ABI.

Thanks. I think this is the right approach in the short term.

Reviewed-by: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis at google.com>



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