From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/26] x86, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:05:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150923080558.GA28876@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5601BA44.8080604@sr71.net>
* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
> On 09/22/2015 01:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> >
> >> > So I defined all the kernel-internal types as u16 since I *know* the
> >> > size of the hardware.
> >> >
> >> > The user-exposed ones should probably be a bit more generic. I did just
> >> > realize that this is an int and my proposed syscall is a long. That I
> >> > definitely need to make consistent.
> >> >
> >> > Does anybody care whether it's an int or a long?
> > long is frowned upon due to 32/64bit. Even if that key stuff is only
> > available on 64bit for now ....
>
> Well, it can be used by 32-bit apps on 64-bit kernels.
>
> Ahh, that's why we don't see any longs in the siginfo. So does that
> mean 'int' is still our best bet in siginfo?
Use {s|u}{8|16|32|64} integer types in ABI relevant interfaces please, they are
our most unambiguous and constant types.
Here that would mean s32 or u32?
Thanks,
Ingo
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 17:49 [PATCH 00/26] [RFCv2] x86: Memory Protection Keys Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 04/26] x86, pku: define new CR4 bit Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 02/26] x86, pkeys: Add Kconfig option Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 03/26] x86, pkeys: cpuid bit definition Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 01/26] x86, fpu: add placeholder for Processor Trace XSAVE state Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 05/26] x86, pkey: add PKRU xsave fields and data structure(s) Dave Hansen
2015-09-22 19:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-22 19:58 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 06/26] x86, pkeys: PTE bits for storing protection key Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 07/26] x86, pkeys: new page fault error code bit: PF_PK Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 08/26] x86, pkeys: store protection in high VMA flags Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 10/26] x86, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults Dave Hansen
2015-09-22 20:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-22 20:21 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-22 20:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-22 20:29 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-23 8:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-09-24 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-24 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-24 17:41 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-25 7:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-25 23:18 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-26 6:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-27 22:39 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-28 5:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-24 17:15 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-28 19:25 ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-09-28 19:32 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 11/26] x86, pkeys: add functions for set/fetch PKRU Dave Hansen
2015-09-22 20:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-22 20:22 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 09/26] x86, pkeys: arch-specific protection bits Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 12/26] mm: factor out VMA fault permission checking Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 14/26] x86, pkeys: check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 13/26] mm: simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 16/26] x86, pkeys: dump PKRU with other kernel registers Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 15/26] x86, pkeys: optimize fault handling in access_error() Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 17/26] x86, pkeys: dump PTE pkey in /proc/pid/smaps Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 20/26] [NEWSYSCALL] mm: implement new mprotect_pkey() system call Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 18/26] x86, pkeys: add Kconfig prompt to existing config option Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 19/26] [NEWSYSCALL] mm, multi-arch: pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits() Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 21/26] [NEWSYSCALL] x86: wire up mprotect_key() system call Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 22/26] [HIJACKPROT] mm: Pass the 4-bit protection key in via PROT_ bits to syscalls Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 23/26] [HIJACKPROT] x86, pkeys: add x86 version of arch_validate_prot() Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 24/26] [HIJACKPROT] x86, pkeys: mask off pkeys bits in mprotect() Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 25/26] x86, pkeys: actually enable Memory Protection Keys in CPU Dave Hansen
2015-09-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 26/26] x86, pkeys: Documentation Dave Hansen
2015-09-20 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-21 4:34 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-24 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-24 19:10 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-24 19:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-25 7:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-25 6:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 20:39 ` Kees Cook
2015-10-01 20:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-02 6:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-02 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-03 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-06 23:28 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-07 7:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-16 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-21 18:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-21 19:11 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-21 23:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-01 20:58 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-01 22:33 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-01 22:35 ` Kees Cook
2015-10-01 22:39 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-01 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-01 22:56 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-02 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-02 18:08 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-02 7:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-03 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-02 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-02 11:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-02 12:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-10-03 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 22:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-02 6:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-03 8:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-07 20:24 ` Dave Hansen
2015-10-07 20:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-07 20:47 ` Dave Hansen
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