linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v5 34/38] procfs: display the protection-key number associated with a vma

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:13:56 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        bsingharora@...il.com, hbabu@...ibm.com, arnd@...db.de,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, corbet@....net, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 34/38] procfs: display the protection-key number
 associated with a vma

On 07/05/2017 02:22 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> +void arch_show_smap(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> +	seq_printf(m, "ProtectionKey:  %8u\n", vma_pkey(vma));
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS */

This seems like kinda silly unnecessary duplication.  Could we just put
this in the fs/proc/ code and #ifdef it on ARCH_HAS_PKEYS?