Hi Dave,
On 10/01/20 11:27 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Could you dump these in a git tree, please? It will make it a wee bit
> easier for me to ship the resulting tree around to a couple different
> systems.
>
I have pushed a version of this series that uses u64 for all references
to the pkey
On 1/10/20 9:38 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> v15:
>> (1) Rebased on top of latest master.
>> (2) Addressed review comments from Dave Hansen.
>> (3) Moved code for getting or setting pkey bits to new
>> helpers. These changes replace patch 7 of v14.
>> (4) Added a fix
Sandipan Das writes:
> Memory protection keys enables an application to protect its address
> space from inadvertent access by its own code.
>
> This feature is now enabled on powerpc and has been available since
> 4.16-rc1. The patches move the selftests to arch neutral directory
> and enhance
On 12/17/19 11:51 PM, Sandipan Das wrote:
> Testing
> ---
> Verified for correctness on powerpc. Need help with x86 testing as I
> do not have access to a Skylake server. Client platforms like Coffee
> Lake do not have the required feature bits set in CPUID.
FWIW, you can get a Skylake Server
Memory protection keys enables an application to protect its address
space from inadvertent access by its own code.
This feature is now enabled on powerpc and has been available since
4.16-rc1. The patches move the selftests to arch neutral directory
and enhance their test coverage.
Testing
