[RFC v4 17/17] procfs: display the protection-key number associated with a vma
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jun 28 11:50:13 AEST 2017
Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com> writes:
> Display the pkey number associated with the vma in smaps of a task.
> The key will be seen as below:
>
> VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me dw ac key=0
Why wouldn't we just emit a "ProtectionKey:" line like x86 does?
See their arch_show_smap().
You should probably also do what x86 does, which is to not display the
key on CPUs that don't support keys.
cheers
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