arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation
authorVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:52:39 +0000 (10:52 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:46:07 +0000 (12:46 +0100)
commitdf9d7a22dd21c926e8175ccc6e176cb45fc7cb09
tree26602918ecfca502f5c549107a42c9812d9719fd
parent89b94df9dfb16fe29f9d2085b0a98116dc34d814
arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation

Memory Tagging Extension (part of the ARMv8.5 Extensions) provides
a mechanism to detect the sources of memory related errors which
may be vulnerable to exploitation, including bounds violations,
use-after-free, use-after-return, use-out-of-scope and use before
initialization errors.

Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation for the arm64 linux
kernel support.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.rst
Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst
Documentation/arm64/index.rst
Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst [new file with mode: 0644]