Thread (100 messages) 100 messages, 4 authors, 2017-08-02

Re: [RFC v6 13/62] powerpc: track allocation status of all pkeys

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-27 14:02:04
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

Hello Ram,

I'm still going through the patches and haven't formed a full picture of
the feature in my mind yet, so my comments today won't be particularly
insightful...

But hopefully the comments that I currently have will be helpful anyway.

Ram Pai [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h
index 203d7de..09b268e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h
@@ -2,21 +2,87 @@
 #define _ASM_PPC64_PKEYS_H

 extern bool pkey_inited;
-#define ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS 0
+#define arch_max_pkey()  32
+#define ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS (VM_PKEY_BIT0 | VM_PKEY_BIT1 | VM_PKEY_BIT2 | \
+				VM_PKEY_BIT3 | VM_PKEY_BIT4)
+/*
+ * Bits are in BE format.
+ * NOTE: key 31, 1, 0 are not used.
+ * key 0 is used by default. It give read/write/execute permission.
+ * key 31 is reserved by the hypervisor.
+ * key 1 is recommended to be not used.
+ * PowerISA(3.0) page 1015, programming note.
+ */
+#define PKEY_INITIAL_ALLOCAION  0xc0000001
There's a typo in the macro name, should be "ALLOCATION".

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center
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