[PATCH v7 0/9] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7

2017-08-09 Thread Khalid Aziz
SPARC M7 processor adds additional metadata for memory address space that can be used to secure access to regions of memory. This additional metadata is implemented as a 4-bit tag attached to each cacheline size block of memory. A task can set a tag on any number of such blocks. Access to such

[PATCH v7 0/9] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7

2017-08-09 Thread Khalid Aziz
SPARC M7 processor adds additional metadata for memory address space that can be used to secure access to regions of memory. This additional metadata is implemented as a 4-bit tag attached to each cacheline size block of memory. A task can set a tag on any number of such blocks. Access to such