On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:45 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 05:35:31PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:28 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:07PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > > > This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow > > > > to > > > > pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other > > > > than 0x00) as syscall arguments. > > > > > > > > This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory > > > > syscalls: get_mempolicy, madvise, mbind, mincore, mlock, mlock2, > > > > mprotect, > > > > mremap, msync, munlock. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com> > > > > > > I would add in the commit log (and possibly in the code with a comment) > > > that mremap() and mmap() do not currently accept tagged hint addresses. > > > Architectures may interpret the hint tag as a background colour for the > > > corresponding vma. With this: > > > > I'll change the commit log. Where do you you think I should put this > > comment? Before mmap and mremap definitions in mm/? > > On arm64 we use our own sys_mmap(). I'd say just add a comment on the > generic mremap() just before the untagged_addr() along the lines that > new_address is not untagged for preserving similar behaviour to mmap().
Will do in v17, thanks! > > -- > Catalin _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
