I'm a bit ambivalent about whether this is needed or not. Protection Keys never affect kernel mappings. But, they can affect whether the kernel will fault when it touches a user mapping. But, the kernel doesn't touch user mappings without some careful choreography and these accesses don't generally result in oopses. Should we dump out PKRU like this in our oopses? --- b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c~pkeys-30-kernel-error-dumps arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c~pkeys-30-kernel-error-dumps 2015-09-16 10:48:18.424290612 -0700 +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2015-09-16 10:48:18.427290748 -0700 @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, i printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR0: %016lx DR1: %016lx DR2: %016lx\n", d0, d1, d2); printk(KERN_DEFAULT "DR3: %016lx DR6: %016lx DR7: %016lx\n", d3, d6, d7); + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE)) + printk(KERN_DEFAULT "PKRU: %08x\n", read_pkru()); } void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task) _ -- 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>