On 03/09/2018 12:06 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 09:19:53PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Once an address range is associated with an allocated pkey, it cannot be >>> reverted back to key-0. There is no valid reason for the above behavior. On >>> the contrary applications need the ability to do so. >> Please explain this in much more detail. Is it an ABI change? > Not necessarily an ABI change. older binary applications will continue > to work. It can be considered as a bug-fix. Yeah, agreed. I do not think this is an ABI change.