On 02/14/2016 10:09 PM, Balbir Singh wrote: >> > 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?
Yes, exactly.
