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RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI.
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI. This series adds support for configuring Smnpm or Ssnpm (depending on which privilege mode the kernel is running in) to allow pointer masking in userspace (VU or U-mode), extending the PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL API from arm64. This RISC-V user-space pointer masking support was queued last week into riscv's "for-next" Git branch.
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