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2017-11-21x86/pkeys: Update documentation about availabilityDave Hansen
Now that CPUs that implement Memory Protection Keys are publicly available we can be a bit less oblique about where it is available. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171111001228.DC748A10@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-25x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txtWang Kai
Replace PKEY_DENY_WRITE with PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE, to match the source code. Signed-off-by: Wang Kai <morgan.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-05x86/pkeys: Update documentationDave Hansen
There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection keys documentation. The config option description only applied to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current code. There was also a typo with the number of system calls. I also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided facility, and where to find an implementation. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004163857.71E0D6F6@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-09pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/Dave Hansen
This spells out all of the pkey-related system calls that we have and provides some example code fragments to demonstrate how we expect them to be used. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160729163020.59350E33@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-03-29x86/mm/pkeys: Add missing DocumentationDave Hansen
Stefan Richter noticed that the X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS option in arch/x86/Kconfig references Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt, but the file does not exist. This is a patch merging mishap: the final (v8) version of the pkeys series did not include the documentation patch 32 and v7 included. Add it now. Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190634.426BEE41@viggo.jf.intel.com [ Added changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>