linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/34] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v5)

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:16:00 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v5)

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net> wrote:
> On 12/04/2015 03:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net> 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
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