[RFC v6 11/62] powerpc: initial pkey plumbing

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com> writes:

> basic setup to initialize the pkey system. Only 64K kernel in HPT
> mode, enables the pkey system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                   |   16 ++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h |    5 +++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h       |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c         |    4 ++
>  arch/powerpc/mm/Makefile               |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c        |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c                |   18 +++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index bf4391d..5c60fd6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -855,6 +855,22 @@ config SECCOMP
>
>  	  If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
>
> +config PPC64_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> +	prompt "PowerPC Memory Protection Keys"
> +	def_bool y
> +	# Note: only available in 64-bit mode
> +	depends on PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
> +	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
> +	select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
> +	---help---
> +	  Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing
> +	  page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
> +	  page tables when an application changes protection domains.
> +
> +	  For details, see Documentation/vm/protection-keys.txt
> +
> +	  If unsure, say y.
> +
>  endmenu


Shouldn't this come as the last patch ? Or can we enable this config by
this patch ? If so what does it do ? Did you test boot each of this
patch to make sure we don't break git bisect ?

>
>  config ISA_DMA_API
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> index da7e943..4b93547 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> @@ -181,5 +181,10 @@ static inline bool arch_vma_access_permitted(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	/* by default, allow everything */


-aneesh