On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 13:01 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> > > For protection keys, we need to understand whether protections > should be enforced in software or not. In general, we enforce > protections when working on our own task, but not when on others. > We call these "current" and "remote" operations. > > This patch introduces a new get_user_pages() variant: > > get_user_pages_remote() > > Which is a replacement for when get_user_pages() is called on > non-current tsk/mm. >
In summary then get_user_pages_remote() do not enforce protections? Balbir Singh.
