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ACPICA commit d9eb82bd7515989f0b29d79deeeb758db4d6529c Currently the pointer to the table is cast to acpi_physical_address and later cast back to a pointer to be dereferenced. Whether or not this is supported is implementation-defined. On CHERI, and thus Arm's experimental Morello prototype architecture, pointers are represented as capabilities, which are unforgeable bounded pointers, providing always-on fine-grained spatial memory safety. This means that any pointer cast to a plain integer will lose all its associated metadata, and when cast back to a pointer it will give a null-derived pointer (one that has the same metadata as null but an address equal to the integer) that will trap on any dereference. As a result, this is an implementation where acpi_physical_address cannot be used as a hack to store real pointers. Thus, add a new field to struct acpi_object_region to store the pointer for table regions, and propagate it to acpi_ex_data_table_space_handler via the region context, to use a more portable implementation that supports CHERI. Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/d9eb82bd Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.