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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ instruction fetches.
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=========================== Syscalls ===========================
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-There are 2 system calls which directly interact with pkeys:
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+There are 3 system calls which directly interact with pkeys:
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int pkey_alloc(unsigned long flags, unsigned long init_access_rights)
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int pkey_free(int pkey);
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@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ is no longer in use:
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munmap(ptr, PAGE_SIZE);
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pkey_free(pkey);
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+(Note: pkey_set() is a wrapper for the RDPKRU and WRPKRU instructions.
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+ An example implementation can be found in
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+ tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c)
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=========================== Behavior ===========================
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The kernel attempts to make protection keys consistent with the
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@@ -79,11 +83,3 @@ with a read():
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The kernel will send a SIGSEGV in both cases, but si_code will be set
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to SEGV_PKERR when violating protection keys versus SEGV_ACCERR when
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the plain mprotect() permissions are violated.
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-
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-=========================== Config Option ===========================
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-
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-This config option adds approximately 1.5kb of text. and 50 bytes of
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-data to the executable. A workload which does large O_DIRECT reads
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-of holes in XFS files was run to exercise get_user_pages_fast(). No
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-performance delta was observed with the config option
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-enabled or disabled.
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