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Subject[PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'
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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>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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.
+
arm
===

--
2.7.4
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