Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] linux-user: Introduce PAGE_ANON

2020-06-25 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 05:17, Richard Henderson wrote: > > Record whether the backing page is anonymous, or if it has file > backing. This will allow us to get close to the Linux AArch64 > ABI for MTE, which allows tag memory only on ram-backed VMAs. > > The real ABI allows tag memory on files, wh

[PATCH v2 02/17] linux-user: Introduce PAGE_ANON

2020-06-04 Thread Richard Henderson
Record whether the backing page is anonymous, or if it has file backing. This will allow us to get close to the Linux AArch64 ABI for MTE, which allows tag memory only on ram-backed VMAs. The real ABI allows tag memory on files, when those files are on ram-backed filesystems, such as tmpfs. We w