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[v3,2/2] Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'

Message ID 1589202116-18265-2-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit c0fc00ec6304a8e2e438ca1688b243815084dc50
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Series [v3,1/2] arm64/crash_core: Export KERNELPACMASK in vmcoreinfo | expand

Commit Message

Amit Daniel Kachhap May 11, 2020, 1:01 p.m. UTC
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.

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>
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
index 007a6b8..e4ee8b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
@@ -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.
+
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