arm64: mte: Document that user PSTATE.TCO is ignored by kernel uaccess
On exception entry, the kernel explicitly resets the PSTATE.TCO (tag check override) so that any kernel memory accesses will be checked (the bit is restored on exception return). This has the side-effect that the uaccess routines will not honour the PSTATE.TCO that may have been set by the user prior to a syscall. There is no issue in practice since PSTATE.TCO is expected to be used only for brief periods in specific routines (e.g. garbage collection). To control the tag checking mode of the uaccess routines, the user will have to invoke a corresponding prctl() call. Document the kernel behaviour w.r.t. PSTATE.TCO accordingly. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Fixes: df9d7a22 ("arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation") Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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