Commit c0fc00ec authored by Amit Daniel Kachhap's avatar Amit Daniel Kachhap Committed by Will Deacon

Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'

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: default avatarAmit 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent 203b1152
...@@ -393,6 +393,12 @@ KERNELOFFSET ...@@ -393,6 +393,12 @@ KERNELOFFSET
The kernel randomization offset. Used to compute the page offset. If The kernel randomization offset. Used to compute the page offset. If
KASLR is disabled, this value is zero. KASLR is disabled, this value is zero.
KERNELPACMASK
-------------
The mask to extract the Pointer Authentication Code from a kernel virtual
address.
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