Thread (45 messages) 45 messages, 6 authors, 2016-07-18

Re: [PATCH 1/9] x86, pkeys: add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit

From: Mel Gorman <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-07 14:40:40
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 05:47:20AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

PF_PK means that a memory access violated the protection key
access restrictions.  It is unconditionally an access_error()
because the permissions set on the VMA don't matter (the PKRU
value overrides it), and we never "resolve" PK faults (like
how a COW can "resolve write fault).

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
An access fault gets propgated as SEGV_PKUERR. What happens if glibc
does not recognise it?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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