arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support
MTE provides an asynchronous mode for detecting tag exceptions. In particular instead of triggering a fault the arm64 core updates a register which is checked by the kernel after the asynchronous tag check fault has occurred. Add support for MTE asynchronous mode. The exception handling mechanism will be added with a future patch. Note: KASAN HW activates async mode via kasan.mode kernel parameter. The default mode is set to synchronous. The code that verifies the status of TFSR_EL1 will be added with a future patch. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315132019.33202-2-vincenzo.frascino@arm.comSigned-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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