Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753580AbbLKUQW (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:16:22 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f177.google.com ([209.85.214.177]:34157 "EHLO mail-ob0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752611AbbLKUQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:16:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56622401.20001@sr71.net> References: <20151204011424.8A36E365@viggo.jf.intel.com> <56622401.20001@sr71.net> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:16:00 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v5) To: Dave Hansen 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 29 On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > 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. Hmm. I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to play with that bit. Maybe I can test by faking it and tweaking MPX instead of PKRU. --Andy -- 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/