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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com, paulus@samba.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7 v1]powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on protection key violation.
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:50:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <622d7abf-3d99-8897-5afb-ef8c4f950fc0@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496711109-4968-8-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com>

On 06/06/2017 06:35 AM, Ram Pai wrote:
> The value of the AMR register at the time of the exception
> is made available in gp_regs[PT_AMR] of the siginfo.

But its already available there in uctxt->uc_mcontext.regs->amr
while inside the signal delivery context in the user space. The
pt_regs already got updated with new AMR register. Then why we
need gp_regs to also contain AMR as well ?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-16  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06  1:05 [RFC PATCH 0/7 v1] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7 v1]powerpc: Free up four PTE bits to accommodate memory keys Ram Pai
2017-06-12  6:57   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-12 22:20     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-13  2:02       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-13 21:51         ` Ram Pai
2017-06-13  4:52   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-13 21:52     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7 v1]powerpc: Implement sys_pkey_alloc and sys_pkey_free system call Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7 v1]powerpc: store and restore the key state across context switches Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7 v1]powerpc: Implementation for sys_mprotect_pkey() system call Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7 v1]powerpc: Program HPTE key protection bits Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7 v1]powerpc: Handle exceptions caused by violation of key protection Ram Pai
2017-06-06  1:05 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7 v1]powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on protection key violation Ram Pai
2017-06-16  9:20   ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2017-06-16 10:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-06-16 19:15       ` Ram Pai
2017-06-16 22:54         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-06-22 21:41           ` Ram Pai
2017-06-16 19:10     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-16 11:18   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-16 19:35     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-20  7:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7 v1] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys Pavel Machek

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