Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752505AbbLDXiq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:38:46 -0500 Received: from www.sr71.net ([198.145.64.142]:47221 "EHLO blackbird.sr71.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750962AbbLDXio (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:38:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v5) To: Andy Lutomirski References: <20151204011424.8A36E365@viggo.jf.intel.com> Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , X86 ML , Linux API , linux-arch , Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Naoya Horiguchi From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <56622401.20001@sr71.net> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:38:41 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 31 On 12/04/2015 03:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> Memory Protection Keys for User pages is a CPU feature which will >> first appear on Skylake Servers, but will also be supported on >> future non-server parts. It provides a mechanism for enforcing >> page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the >> page tables when an application changes protection domains. See >> the Documentation/ patch for more details. > > What, if anything, happened to the signal handling parts? Patches 12 and 13 contain most of it: x86, pkeys: fill in pkey field in siginfo signals, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults I decided to just not try to preserve the pkey_get/set() semantics across entering and returning from signals, fwiw. > Also, do you have a git tree for this somewhere? I can't actually > enable it (my laptop, while very shiny, is not a Skylake server), but > I can poke around a bit. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-pkeys.git/ Thanks for taking a look! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/