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Description of problem: Arm V8.5 CPUs are expected in the RHEL 9 timeframe, as such Glibc on aarch64 should be built with --enable-memory-tagging. A similar defect for fedora is here: 1944758

There is another more general (kernel focused) RHEL 9 defect: 1894743


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.33-2

I assume this is just a simple spec file change, like this:

+ %ifarch aarch64
+ 		--enable-memory-tagging \
+ %endif

Can we do this for glibc 2.33, or should we wait until the rebase to glibc 2.34? Thanks.

(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #2)
> I assume this is just a simple spec file change, like this:
> 
> + %ifarch aarch64
> + 		--enable-memory-tagging \
> + %endif
> 
> Can we do this for glibc 2.33, or should we wait until the rebase to glibc
> 2.34? Thanks.

We received feedback from Arm about this.

The answer to this is as follows:
- The 2.33 release has everything that we need to enable memory tagging and small fixes were backported into the release branch.
- That 2.34 has only performance improvements.

Therefore we can move this forward with glibc 2.33.