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authorAmit Daniel Kachhap2020-05-11 18:31:56 +0530
committerWill Deacon2020-05-11 14:29:10 +0100
commitc0fc00ec6304a8e2e438ca1688b243815084dc50 (patch)
tree39885b15843bf96990c3e9b79ee6dcb43d40831e /Documentation/admin-guide/kdump
parent203b1152d18c04823f73b843eb3b0ad646e4dbb2 (diff)
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: 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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
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@@ -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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