On 06/13/2018 05:45 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > /* > - * There are 16 pkeys supported in hardware. Three are > - * allocated by the time we get here: > - * 1. The default key (0) > - * 2. One possibly consumed by an execute-only mapping. > - * 3. One allocated by the test code and passed in via > - * 'pkey' to this function. > - * Ensure that we can allocate at least another 13 (16-3). > + * There are NR_PKEYS pkeys supported in hardware. arch_reserved_keys() > + * are reserved. One of which is the default key(0). One can be taken > + * up by an execute-only mapping. > + * Ensure that we can allocate at least the remaining. > */ > - pkey_assert(i >= NR_PKEYS-3); > + pkey_assert(i >= (NR_PKEYS-arch_reserved_keys()-1)); We recently had a bug here. I fixed it and left myself a really nice comment so I and others wouldn't screw it up in the future. Does this kill my nice, new comment?