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Intel engineers had submitted support for Linear Address Masking (LAM) with the recently-closed Linux 6.2 merge window but it was rejected by Linus Torvalds. In working toward re-submitted it for the v6.3 cycle or later, an updated Linux LAM patch series was posted today.

Linus Torvalds rejected the Intel LAM patches from Linux 6.2 on the basis of changes to the untagged_addr() function believed to be "fundamentally broken" and making invalid assumptions. He also wasn't fond of the LAM name when Arm already provides this functionality as TBI, but that's something the Intel engineers would have a tougher time changing at Intel.

Intel LAM is about using the untranslated address bits of user-space addresses so it can be used for metadata. The LAM metadata can be used for purposes such like user-space memory sanitizers and tagging and is similar in nature to AMD's Upper Address Ignore "UAI" with Zen 4 and Arm's Top Byte Ignore "TBI" features.

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