Memory protection keys enables an application to protect its address space from inadvertent access by its own code. This feature is now enabled on powerpc architecture and integrated in 4.16-rc1. The patches move the selftests to arch neutral directory and enhance their test coverage. Test ---- Verified for correctness on powerpc and on x86 architectures(using EC2 ubuntu VM instance). History: ------- version 12: (1) fixed the offset of pkey field in the siginfo structure for x86_64 and powerpc. And tries to use the actual field if the headers have it defined. version 11: (1) fixed a deadlock in the ptrace testcase. version 10 and prior: (1) moved the testcase to arch neutral directory (2) split the changes into incremental patches. Ram Pai (21): selftests/x86: Move protecton key selftest to arch neutral directory selftests/vm: rename all references to pkru to a generic name selftests/vm: move generic definitions to header file selftests/vm: typecast the pkey register selftests/vm: generic function to handle shadow key register selftests/vm: fix the wrong assert in pkey_disable_set() selftests/vm: fixed bugs in pkey_disable_clear() selftests/vm: clear the bits in shadow reg when a pkey is freed. selftests/vm: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really random selftests/vm: introduce two arch independent abstraction selftests/vm: pkey register should match shadow pkey selftests/vm: generic cleanup selftests/vm: powerpc implementation for generic abstraction selftests/vm: clear the bits in shadow reg when a pkey is freed. selftests/vm: powerpc implementation to check support for pkey selftests/vm: fix an assertion in test_pkey_alloc_exhaust() selftests/vm: associate key on a mapped page and detect access violation selftests/vm: associate key on a mapped page and detect write violation selftests/vm: detect write violation on a mapped access-denied-key page selftests/vm: testcases must restore pkey-permissions selftests/vm: sub-page allocator Thiago Jung Bauermann (1): selftests/vm: Fix deadlock in protection_keys.c tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/vm/pkey-helpers.h | 434 ++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 1471 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/x86/pkey-helpers.h | 223 ---- tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c | 1407 ----------------------- 6 files changed, 1907 insertions(+), 1631 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/pkey-helpers.h create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/x86/pkey-helpers.h delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html