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From:   Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:29:46 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.7-A: MTE: Add asymm mode support
To:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:21 AM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
>
> This series implements the asymmetric mode support for ARMv8.7-A Memory
> Tagging Extension (MTE), which is a debugging feature that allows to
> detect with the help of the architecture the C and C++ programmatic
> memory errors like buffer overflow, use-after-free, use-after-return, etc.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like this only includes KASAN
support and not userspace support. Is userspace support coming in a
separate patch?

The fact that this only includes KASAN support should probably be in
the commit messages as well.

Peter