From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f178.google.com (mail-pf0-f178.google.com [209.85.192.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F20F6B0005 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:34:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pf0-f178.google.com with SMTP id 124so87410260pfg.0 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net. [2001:4f8:3:36:211:85ff:fe63:a549]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q136si31319100pfq.209.2016.03.07.13.34.05 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:34:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:34:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20160307.163401.1082539079648850099.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <56DDF22D.9090102@oracle.com> References: <56DDC2B6.6020009@oracle.com> <20160307.140915.1323031236840000210.davem@davemloft.net> <56DDF22D.9090102@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: khalid.aziz@oracle.com Cc: corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bob.picco@oracle.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aarcange@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, rob.gardner@oracle.com, mhocko@suse.cz, chris.hyser@oracle.com, richard@nod.at, vbabka@suse.cz, koct9i@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, gthelen@google.com, jack@suse.cz, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com, luto@kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, bsegall@google.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, dave@stgolabs.net, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org From: Khalid Aziz Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:27:09 -0700 > I agree with your point of view. PSTATE.mcde and TTE.mcd are set in > response to request from userspace. If userspace asked for them to be > set, they already know but it was the database guys that asked for > these two functions and they are the primary customers for the ADI > feature. I am not crazy about this idea since this extends the > mprotect API even further but would you consider using the return > value from mprotect to indicate if PSTATE.mcde or TTE.mcd were already > set on the given address? Well, that's the idea. If the mprotect using MAP_ADI or whatever succeeds, then ADI is enabled. Users can thus also pass MAP_ADI as a flag to mmap() to get ADI protection from the very beginning. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org