see
linux commit 1446e1df9eb183fdf81c3f0715402f1d7595d4cb
kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection
linux commit 36a6c843fd0d8e02506681577e96dabd203dd8e8
entry: Use different define for selector variable in SUD
redirect syscalls to a userspace handler via SIGSYS, except for a specific
range of code. can be toggled via a memory write to a selector variable.
mainly for wine.
these are for the aarch64 MTE (memory tagging extension), see
linux commit 1c101da8b971a36695319dce7a24711dc567a0dd
arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl()
linux commit af5ce95282dc99d08a27a407a02c763dde1c5558
arm64: mte: Allow user control of the generated random tags via prctl()
needed for storage drivers with userspace component that may
run in the IO path, see
linux commit 8d19f1c8e1937baf74e1962aae9f90fa3aeab463
prctl: PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER to support controlling memory reclaim
per thread prctl commands to relax the syscall abi such that top bits
of user pointers are ignored in the kernel. this allows the use of
those bits by hwasan or by mte to color pointers and memory on aarch64:
linux commit 63f0c60379650d82250f22e4cf4137ef3dc4f43d
arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI
allows specifying that the speculative store bypass disable bit should
be cleared on exec. see
linux commit 71368af9027f18fe5d1c6f372cfdff7e4bde8b48
x86/speculation: Add PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC
aarch64 pointer authentication code related prctl that allows
reinitializing the key for the thread, added in linux commit
ba830885656414101b2f8ca88786524d4bb5e8c1
PR_{SET,GET}_SPECULATION_CTRL controls speculation related vulnerability
mitigations, new in commits
b617cfc858161140d69cc0b5cc211996b557a1c7
356e4bfff2c5489e016fdb925adbf12a1e3950ee
PR_SVE_SET_VL and PR_SVE_GET_VL controls are new in linux commit
2d2123bc7c7f843aa9db87720de159a049839862
related PR_SVE_* macros were added in
7582e22038a266444eb87bc07c372592ad647439
PR_SET_MM_MAP was introduced as a subcommand for PR_SET_MM in
linux v3.18 commit f606b77f1a9e362451aca8f81d8f36a3a112139e
the associated struct type is replicated in sys/prctl.h using
libc types.
example usage:
struct prctl_mm_map *p;
...
prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_MAP, p, sizeof *p);
the kernel side supported struct size may be queried with
the PR_SET_MM_MAP_SIZE subcommand.
