Thiago Jung Bauermann [off-list ref] writes:

Ram Pai [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 static inline void pkey_initialize(void)
 {
+	int os_reserved, i;
+
 	/* disable the pkey system till everything
 	 * is in place. A patch further down the
 	 * line will enable it.
 	 */
 	pkey_inited = false;
+
+	/* Lets assume 32 keys */
+	pkeys_total = 32;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES
+	/*
+	 * the OS can manage only 8 pkeys
+	 * due to its inability to represent
+	 * them in the linux 4K-PTE.
+	 */
+	os_reserved = pkeys_total-8;
+#else
+	os_reserved = 0;
+#endif
+	/*
+	 * Bits are in LE format.
+	 * NOTE: 1, 0 are reserved.
+	 * key 0 is the default key, which allows read/write/execute.
+	 * key 1 is recommended not to be used.
+	 * PowerISA(3.0) page 1015, programming note.
+	 */
+	initial_allocation_mask = ~0x0;
+	for (i = 2; i < (pkeys_total - os_reserved); i++)
+		initial_allocation_mask &= ~(0x1<<i);
 }
 #endif /*_ASM_PPC64_PKEYS_H */

In v6, key 31 was also reserved, but it's not in this version. Is this
intentional?

That whole thing could be replaced with two constants.

Except it can't, because we can't just hard code the number of keys. It
needs to come either from the device tree or be based on the CPU we're
running on.

Isn't it better for this function to be in pkeys.c? Ideally, functions
should be in .c files not in headers unless they're very small or
performance sensitive IMHO.

Yes. No reason for that to be in a header AFAICS.

cheers