Re: [PATCH 12/27] Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Sat Apr 27 2019 - 13:53:14 EST


Em Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:35 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
> add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 +
> ...rotection-keys.txt => protection-keys.rst} | 33 ++++++++++++-------
> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> rename Documentation/x86/{protection-keys.txt => protection-keys.rst} (83%)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> index e06b5c0ea883..576628b121cc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
> @@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ Linux x86 Support
> tlb
> mtrr
> pat
> + protection-keys
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.rst
> similarity index 83%
> rename from Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
> rename to Documentation/x86/protection-keys.rst
> index ecb0d2dadfb7..49d9833af871 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.rst
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +======================
> +Memory Protection Keys
> +======================
> +
> Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a feature
> which is found on Intel's Skylake "Scalable Processor" Server CPUs.
> It will be avalable in future non-server parts.
> @@ -23,9 +29,10 @@ even though there is theoretically space in the PAE PTEs. These
> permissions are enforced on data access only and have no effect on
> instruction fetches.
>
> -=========================== Syscalls ===========================
> +Syscalls
> +========
>
> -There are 3 system calls which directly interact with pkeys:
> +There are 3 system calls which directly interact with pkeys::
>
> int pkey_alloc(unsigned long flags, unsigned long init_access_rights)
> int pkey_free(int pkey);
> @@ -37,6 +44,7 @@ pkey_alloc(). An application calls the WRPKRU instruction
> directly in order to change access permissions to memory covered
> with a key. In this example WRPKRU is wrapped by a C function
> called pkey_set().
> +::
>
> int real_prot = PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE;
> pkey = pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE);
> @@ -45,43 +53,44 @@ called pkey_set().
> ... application runs here
>
> Now, if the application needs to update the data at 'ptr', it can
> -gain access, do the update, then remove its write access:
> +gain access, do the update, then remove its write access::
>
> pkey_set(pkey, 0); // clear PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE
> *ptr = foo; // assign something
> pkey_set(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE); // set PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE again
>
> Now when it frees the memory, it will also free the pkey since it
> -is no longer in use:
> +is no longer in use::
>
> munmap(ptr, PAGE_SIZE);
> pkey_free(pkey);
>
> -(Note: pkey_set() is a wrapper for the RDPKRU and WRPKRU instructions.
> - An example implementation can be found in
> - tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c)
> +.. note:: pkey_set() is a wrapper for the RDPKRU and WRPKRU instructions.
> + An example implementation can be found in
> + tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c.
>
> -=========================== Behavior ===========================
> +Behavior
> +========
>
> The kernel attempts to make protection keys consistent with the
> -behavior of a plain mprotect(). For instance if you do this:
> +behavior of a plain mprotect(). For instance if you do this::
>
> mprotect(ptr, size, PROT_NONE);
> something(ptr);
>
> -you can expect the same effects with protection keys when doing this:
> +you can expect the same effects with protection keys when doing this::
>
> pkey = pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE | PKEY_DISABLE_READ);
> pkey_mprotect(ptr, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, pkey);
> something(ptr);
>
> That should be true whether something() is a direct access to 'ptr'
> -like:
> +like::
>
> *ptr = foo;
>
> or when the kernel does the access on the application's behalf like
> -with a read():
> +with a read()::
>
> read(fd, ptr, 1);
>



Thanks,
Mauro