Re: pkeys: Reserve PKEY_DISABLE_READ

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On 11/8/18 4:05 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Would it be possible to reserve a bit for PKEY_DISABLE_READ?
> 
> I think the POWER implementation can disable read access at the hardware
> level, but not write access, and that cannot be expressed with the
> current PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS and PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE bits.

Do you just mean in the syscall interfaces?  What would we need to do on
x86 if we see the bit?  Would we just say it's invalid on x86, or would
we make sure that PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS==PKEY_DISABLE_READ?



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