linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v6 13/62] powerpc: track allocation status of all pkeys

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:15:55 -0300
From:   Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>
Cc:     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,
        arnd@...db.de, corbet@....net, mhocko@...nel.org,
        dave.hansen@...el.com, mingo@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v6 13/62] powerpc: track allocation status of all pkeys


Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com> writes:
>  static inline int mm_pkey_free(struct mm_struct *mm, int pkey)
>  {
> -	return -EINVAL;
> +	if (!pkey_inited)
> +		return -1;

Sorry, I missed this earlier but the pkey_free syscall will pass this
value to userspace so it needs to be an errno as well (-EINVAL?).

> +
> +	if (!mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	mm_set_pkey_free(mm, pkey);
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center