This patch provides intrinsics support for Memory Tagging Extension (MTE),
which was introduced with the Armv8.5-a architecture.
This is llvm patch. The corresponding clang patch is: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60485
These intrinsics are available when __ARM_FEATURE_MEMORY_TAGGING is defined.
Each intrinsic is described in detail in the latest ACLE Q1 2019 documentation:
https://developer.arm.com/docs/101028/latest
However, below we also list the intrinsics:
- T* __arm_mte_create_random_tag(T* src, uint64_t mask); This intrinsic returns a pointer containing a randomly created logical address tag.
- T* __arm_mte_increment_tag(T* src, unsigned offset); This intrinsic returns a pointer which is a copy of the input pointer src but with the logical address tag part offset by a specified offset value.
- uint64_t __arm_mte_exclude_tag(T* src, uint64_t excluded); This intrinsic adds a logical tag to the set of excluded logical tags.
- void __arm_mte_set_tag(T* tag_address); This intrinsic stores an allocation tag, computed from the logical tag, to the tag memory thereby setting the allocation tag for the 16-byte granule of memory.
- T* __arm_mte_get_tag(T* address); This intrinsic loads the allocation tag from tag memory and returns the corresponding logical tag as part of the returned pointer value.
- ptrdiff_t __arm_mte_ptrdiff(T* a, T* b); The intrinsic calculates the difference between the address parts of the two pointers, ignoring the tags.
Remove this.