On 12/04/2015 03:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Memory Protection Keys for User pages is a CPU feature which will >> first appear on Skylake Servers, but will also be supported on >> future non-server parts. It provides a mechanism for enforcing >> page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the >> page tables when an application changes protection domains. See >> the Documentation/ patch for more details. > > What, if anything, happened to the signal handling parts? Patches 12 and 13 contain most of it: x86, pkeys: fill in pkey field in siginfo signals, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults I decided to just not try to preserve the pkey_get/set() semantics across entering and returning from signals, fwiw. > Also, do you have a git tree for this somewhere? I can't actually > enable it (my laptop, while very shiny, is not a Skylake server), but > I can poke around a bit. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-pkeys.git/ Thanks for taking a look! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
