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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
	 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	Sunil K Pandey <skpgkp2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/1] RFC: Add <sys/tagged-address.h>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:49:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOoja-J1-2JKzLu_S2PXZKGyitg4M996DAh1zt=tj5V3Rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtm5h7a5.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 5:34 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * H. J. Lu:
>
> > By default, the number of the address bits used in address translation
> > is the number of address bits.  But it can be changed by ARM Top-byte
> > Ignore (TBI) or Intel Linear Address Masking (LAM).
> >
> > <sys/tagged-address.h> provides an API for tagged address manipulation.
>
> H.J.,
>
> we had an off-list discussion regarding this, and I want to double-check
> if my recollection of the conclusion is correct.
>
> Basically, we said that we would try to enable HWSAN on x86-64 as well
> (using Intel LAM) *without* glibc changes or a new ABI.  Once we have a
> better understanding of how address tagging is used/could be used by
> applications, we plan to define a general-purpose programming interface
> for it.

I withdrew this patch.

My current LAM patch is

https://gitlab.com/x86-glibc/glibc/-/commit/9d8fb211169fe677d3feca74aef5e87595f934ef

I will submit it after the LAM kernel interface is finalized.

-- 
H.J.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-15 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24 16:53 H.J. Lu
2021-09-24 16:53 ` [PATCH v7 1/1] <sys/tagged-address.h>: An API for tagged address H.J. Lu
2021-10-04 13:58   ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-24 18:08 ` [PATCH v7 0/1] RFC: Add <sys/tagged-address.h> Joseph Myers
2021-09-24 18:39   ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-24 18:53     ` Joseph Myers
2021-09-24 18:58       ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-24 19:34         ` Joseph Myers
2021-09-24 22:00           ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-15 13:34 ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-15 13:49   ` H.J. Lu [this message]

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