Re: pkeys: Reserve PKEY_DISABLE_READ

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* Ram Pai:

> Hi Dave! :) So what is needed? Support a new flag PKEY_DISABLE_READ,
> and make it return error for all architectures?

PKEY_DISABLE_READ | PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE should be equivalent to
PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS.  PKEY_DISABLE_READ without any other flag on x86
should return EINVAL (as for other invalid access rights specified for
pkey_alloc).

> Or are we enhancing the symantics of pkey_alloc() to allocate keys with
> just disable-read permissions.? And if so, will x86 be able to support
> that semantics?

I think x86 cannot do this, but POWER can, but it's currently not
possible to express this via pkey_alloc.  That could be fixed, too.

Thanks,
Florian



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