From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751797AbeBZVOj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:14:39 -0500 Received: from mga12.intel.com ([192.55.52.136]:4570 "EHLO mga12.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499AbeBZVOh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:14:37 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.47,398,1515484800"; d="scan'208";a="20475014" Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 2/3] mm, powerpc, x86: introduce an additional vma bit for powerpc pkey To: Ram Pai , mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <1519257138-23797-1-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> <1519257138-23797-3-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com, mhocko@kernel.org, bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, corbet@lwn.net, arnd@arndb.de, fweimer@redhat.com, msuchanek@suse.com From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:14:34 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1519257138-23797-3-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/21/2018 03:52 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h > index ad207ad..d534f46 100644 > --- a/include/linux/mm.h > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h > @@ -231,9 +231,10 @@ extern int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *, > #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS > # define VM_PKEY_SHIFT VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0 > # define VM_PKEY_BIT0 VM_HIGH_ARCH_0 /* A protection key is a 4-bit value */ > -# define VM_PKEY_BIT1 VM_HIGH_ARCH_1 > +# define VM_PKEY_BIT1 VM_HIGH_ARCH_1 /* on x86 and 5-bit value on ppc64 */ > # define VM_PKEY_BIT2 VM_HIGH_ARCH_2 > # define VM_PKEY_BIT3 VM_HIGH_ARCH_3 > +# define VM_PKEY_BIT4 VM_HIGH_ARCH_4 > #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */ I think I would prefer if VM_PKEY_BIT4 was unusable on x86, or #defined to 0. We don't want folks using a bit that can not be programmed into the hardware.