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RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13

By October 29, 2024No Comments1 min read
  • Anisha Sharma

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    Anisha is part of the RISC-V International marketing team, responsible for managing social media and tracking the latest updates from our members. She brings more than seven years of experience in digital marketing and communications strategy to the team.

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI.

RISC-V pointer masking can be used for implementing memory tagging akin to the Arm Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) by way of ignoring various bits of the effective address on RISC-V platforms. Memory tagging can help with the memory safety state of user-space applications.

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