Re: [PATCH 00/34] x86: Memory Protection Keys (v5)

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 18:32:01 EST


On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Memory Protection Keys for User pages is a CPU feature which will
> first appear on Skylake Servers, but will also be supported on
> future non-server parts. It provides a mechanism for enforcing
> page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
> page tables when an application changes protection domains. See
> the Documentation/ patch for more details.

What, if anything, happened to the signal handling parts?

Also, do you have a git tree for this somewhere? I can't actually
enable it (my laptop, while very shiny, is not a Skylake server), but
I can poke around a bit.

--Andy
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