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Commit 75516c75 authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas
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arm64: doc: Add brk/mmap/mremap() to the Tagged Address ABI Exceptions



Prior to commit dcde2373 ("mm: Avoid creating virtual address
aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap()"), the kernel allowed tagged addresses
to be passed to the brk/mmap/mremap() syscalls. This relaxation was
tightened in 5.6 (backported to stable 5.4) but the
tagged-address-abi.rst document was only partially updated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fixes: dcde2373 ("mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap()")
Reported-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210423175134.14838-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 9b924f4f
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