On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 13:01 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > For protection keys, we need to understand whether protections > should be enforced in software or not. In general, we enforce > protections when working on our own task, but not when on others. > We call these "current" and "remote" operations. > > This patch introduces a new get_user_pages() variant: > > get_user_pages_remote() > > Which is a replacement for when get_user_pages() is called on > non-current tsk/mm. > In summary then get_user_pages_remote() do not enforce protections? Balbir Singh. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>