Thread (123 messages) 123 messages, 12 authors, 2018-08-14

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack memory

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-07-11 08:34:47
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:20PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.

A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and dirty.  For non shadow
stack, we use a spare bit of the 64-bit PTE for dirty.  The PTE
changes are in the next patch.
This doesn't make any sense.. the $subject and the patch seem completely
unrelated to this Changelog.
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