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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1601082040190.3575@nanos>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 20:40:31 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org,
dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/31] x86, pkeys: create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits()
for VMA flags
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
>
> calc_vm_prot_bits() takes PROT_{READ,WRITE,EXECUTE} bits and
> turns them in to the vma->vm_flags/VM_* bits. We need to do a
> similar thing for protection keys.
>
> We take a protection key (4 bits) and encode it in to the 4
> VM_PKEY_* bits.
>
> Note: this code is not new. It was simply a part of the
> mprotect_pkey() patch in the past. I broke it out for use
> in the execute-only support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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