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From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] mm: Pass the 4-bit protection key in via PROT_ bits to syscalls
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:41:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EA0203.6070202@sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp1xgc01.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

On 09/04/2015 01:34 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
...>>> It will also be very painful to add additional bits.  We went through
>>> this with the CPU affinity mask, and it still hurts it.  Please use a
>>> more sensible interface from the start. :)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> It's difficult.  I don't know what kind of programming model you
> expect.  Could glibc use these bits for its own implementation?  Or
> OpenSSL?

Our expectation is that there will be a central "allocator" for these
bits for mixed-use, like when two libraries want to control a portion of
the address space for their purposes.

Applications will also be completely free to implement their own, like
with a language runtime.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-04 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07 17:41 [PATCH 00/12] [RFC] x86: Memory Protection Keys Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 02/12] x86, pku: define new CR4 bit Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86, pkeys: cpuid bit definition Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 03/12] x86, pkey: pkru xsave fields and data structure Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 06/12] x86, pkeys: store protection in high VMA flags Dave Hansen
2015-05-15 21:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-05-15 21:13     ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 05/12] x86, pkeys: new page fault error code bit: PF_PK Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 04/12] x86, pkeys: PTE bits Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 07/12] mm: Pass the 4-bit protection key in via PROT_ bits to syscalls Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 19:11   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-07 19:19     ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-04 20:13       ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-04 20:18         ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-04 20:34           ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-04 20:41             ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 08/12] x86, pkeys: arch-specific protection bits Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 12/12] x86, pkeys: Documentation Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 11/12] x86, pkeys: actually enable Memory Protection Keys in CPU Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 10/12] x86, pkeys: differentiate Protection Key faults from normal Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 09/12] x86, pkeys: notify userspace about protection key faults Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 17:57 ` [PATCH 00/12] [RFC] x86: Memory Protection Keys Ingo Molnar
2015-05-07 18:09   ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 18:48     ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-05-07 21:45       ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-09 19:09       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-05-07 19:18     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-07 19:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-07 19:40         ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 20:11         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-08  4:51           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-08  6:09       ` Kevin Easton
2015-05-07 19:22     ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-07 19:29       ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 19:45         ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-07 19:49           ` Dave Hansen
2015-05-07 19:57             ` Christian Borntraeger

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