Documentation: document /proc api for arm64 MTE vm flags
authorSzabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:19:40 +0000 (10:19 +0000)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:28:06 +0000 (12:28 -0700)
Document that /proc/PID/smaps shows PROT_MTE settings in VmFlags.
Support for this was introduced in

  commit 9f3419315f3cdc41a7318e4d50ba18a592b30c8c
  arm64: mte: Add PROT_MTE support to mmap() and mprotect()

Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106101940.5777-1-szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst

index 533c79e..e5fa972 100644 (file)
@@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ encoded manner. The codes are the following:
     nh    no huge page advise flag
     mg    mergable advise flag
     bt    arm64 BTI guarded page
+    mt    arm64 MTE allocation tags are enabled
     ==    =======================================
 
 Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will