Re: [RFC v4 00/17] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys

2017-06-27 Thread Balbir Singh
On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 03:11 -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > Memory protection keys enable applications to protect its > address space from inadvertent access or corruption from > itself. > > The overall idea: > > A process allocates a key and associates it with > a address range withinits a

[RFC v4 00/17] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys

2017-06-27 Thread Ram Pai
Memory protection keys enable applications to protect its address space from inadvertent access or corruption from itself. The overall idea: A process allocates a key and associates it with a address range withinits address space. The process than can dynamically set read/wri