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Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'
authorAmit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Mon, 11 May 2020 13:01:56 +0000 (18:31 +0530)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 May 2020 13:29:10 +0000 (14:29 +0100)
Add documentation for KERNELPACMASK variable being added to the vmcoreinfo.

It indicates the PAC bits mask information of signed kernel pointers if
Armv8.3-A Pointer Authentication feature is present.

Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589202116-18265-2-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst

index 007a6b86e0eedc6b164a5734bd2acc7c37e11916..e4ee8b2db604fdd913f2366f371f89b0a0c9c370 100644 (file)
@@ -393,6 +393,12 @@ KERNELOFFSET
 The kernel randomization offset. Used to compute the page offset. If
 KASLR is disabled, this value is zero.
 
+KERNELPACMASK
+-------------
+
+The mask to extract the Pointer Authentication Code from a kernel virtual
+address.
+
 arm
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