Re: [PATCH 22/32] x86, pkeys: dump PTE pkey in /proc/pid/smaps

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Jan 06 2016 - 12:46:22 EST


On 01/05/2016 05:32 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/14/2015 08:06 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> $SUBJ is a bit confusing in that it's dumping stuff from VMA, not PTE's?

Yeah, absolutely. That's a relic from when I thought I'd need to be
walking the page tables to figure this out. I'll update it.

> It could be also useful to extend dump_vma() appropriately. Currently
> there are no string translations for the new "flags" (but one can figure
> it out from the raw value). But maybe we should print pkey separately in
> dump_vma() as you do here. I have a series in flight [1] that touches
> dump_vma() and the flags printing in general, so to avoid conflicts,
> handling pkeys there could wait. But mentioning it now for less chance
> of being forgotten...
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/18/178 - a previous version is in
> mmotm and this should replace it after 4.5-rc1

Ahhh, very nice. I'll go back and add support for it once your patch lands.
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