[PATCH 03/25] powerpc: track allocation status of all pkeys
Ram Pai
linuxram at us.ibm.com
Mon Oct 9 10:02:43 AEDT 2017
On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:02:55PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > Total 32 keys are available on power7 and above. However
> > pkey 0,1 are reserved. So effectively we have 30 pkeys.
> >
> > On 4K kernels, we do not have 5 bits in the PTE to
> > represent all the keys; we only have 3bits.Two of those
> > keys are reserved; pkey 0 and pkey 1. So effectively we
> > have 6 pkeys.
> >
> > This patch keeps track of reserved keys, allocated keys
> > and keys that are currently free.
> >
> > Also it adds skeletal functions and macros, that the
> > architecture-independent code expects to be available.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu.h | 9 ++++
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 1 +
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c | 2 +
> > arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c | 28 ++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> This doesn't build for me, with pseries_le_defconfig. I assume it built
> for you. So something has changed upstream maybe?
>
Yes. :(
The following commit upstream broke my patches.
df3735c5b40fad8d0d28eb8ab065fe955b3347ee
Will fix and send you a patch.
RP
>
> In file included from ../include/linux/pkeys.h:8:0,
> from ../mm/mprotect.c:26:
> ../mm/mprotect.c: In function ‘do_mprotect_pkey’:
> ../arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h:27:29: error: ‘VM_PKEY_BIT0’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> #define ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS (VM_PKEY_BIT0 | VM_PKEY_BIT1 | VM_PKEY_BIT2 | \
> ^
..snip...
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