[PATCH 07/23] Documentation for memory tagging remote packets

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Fri Jul 17 05:54:01 GMT 2020


> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:44:57 -0300
> From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, david.spickett@linaro.org
> 
> +If the number of memory tags, @var{N}, is greater than or equal to the number
> +of memory tag granules, @var{G}, only @var{G} tags will be stored.
> +
> +If @var{N} is less than @var{G}, the behavior is that of a fill operation,
> +and the tag bytes will be used as a pattern that will get repeated until
> +@var{G} tags are stored.

The symbols inside @var should be lower-case, per our conventions.
They look better in the printed manual that way.

> +For AArch64 GNU/Linux systems, this feature also requires access to the smaps
> +file in the proc filesystem so memory mapping page flags can be inspected.

"proc" should have the @file markup (and should probably be "/proc"?).

The patch is OK with those nits fixed.

Thanks.


More information about the Gdb-patches mailing list