linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 15/22] selftests/vm: powerpc implementation to check support for pkey

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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:26:09 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, shuahkh@....samsung.com,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 15/22] selftests/vm: powerpc implementation to check
 support for pkey

On 02/21/2018 05:55 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
>  #define PAGE_SIZE (0x1UL << 16)
> -static inline int cpu_has_pku(void)
> +static inline bool is_pkey_supported(void)
>  {
> -	return 1;
> +	/*
> +	 * No simple way to determine this.
> +	 * lets try allocating a key and see if it succeeds.
> +	 */
> +	int ret = sys_pkey_alloc(0, 0);
> +
> +	if (ret > 0) {
> +		sys_pkey_free(ret);
> +		return true;
> +	}
> +	return false;
>  }

The point of doing this was to have a test for the CPU that way separate
from the syscalls.

Can you leave cpu_has_pkeys() in place?