Re: Rethinking sigcontext's xfeatures slightly for PKRU's benefit?

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 08:43:03 EST


On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:38:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:59:14AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Stupid question, but what the heck is PKRU? A grep of the kernel tree
> > > shows no results, and a web search returns mostly Thai language results.
> >
> > That should explain it:
> >
> > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190542.39C4886D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> There's also an LWN article from last year, as background:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

I had actually seen both the thread and the article before, but the
"PKRU" subject didn't really lead to either..