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arm64: documentation: tighten up tagged pointer documentation

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Commit d50240a5f6 ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
added support for tagged pointers in userspace, but the corresponding
update to Documentation/ contained some imprecise statements.

This patch fixes up some minor ambiguities in the text, hopefully making
it more clear about exactly what the kernel expects from user virtual
addresses.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Will Deacon 2013-09-17 11:46:23 +01:00 committed by Catalin Marinas
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Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
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@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ this byte for application use, with the following caveats:
parameters containing user virtual addresses *must* have
their top byte cleared before trapping to the kernel.
(2) Tags are not guaranteed to be preserved when delivering
signals. This means that signal handlers in applications
making use of tags cannot rely on the tag information for
user virtual addresses being maintained for fields inside
siginfo_t. One exception to this rule is for signals raised
in response to debug exceptions, where the tag information
(2) Non-zero tags are not preserved when delivering signals.
This means that signal handlers in applications making use
of tags cannot rely on the tag information for user virtual
addresses being maintained for fields inside siginfo_t.
One exception to this rule is for signals raised in response
to watchpoint debug exceptions, where the tag information
will be preserved.
(3) Special care should be taken when using tagged pointers,
since it is likely that C compilers will not hazard two
addresses differing only in the upper bits.
virtual addresses differing only in the upper byte.
The architecture prevents the use of a tagged PC, so the upper byte will
be set to a sign-extension of bit 55 on exception return.