On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Peter Zijstra <[email protected]> > > In order to create VMAs that are not accessible to userspace create a new > VM_NOUSER flag. This can be used in conjunction with > install_special_mapping() to inject 'kernel' data into the userspace map. > > Similar to how arch_vm_get_page_prot() allows adding _PAGE_flags to > pgprot_t, introduce arch_vm_get_page_prot_excl() which masks > _PAGE_flags from pgprot_t and use this to implement VM_NOUSER for x86.
How does this interact with get_user_pages(), etc?
