mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Store protection bits in high VMA flags
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:02:08 +0000 (13:02 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:31:50 +0000 (09:31 +0100)
commit63c17fb8e5a46a16e10e82005748837fd11a2024
treeab73d1766b2da48aca26dce24953d608f4a80d85
parentb3ecd51559ae7a8f40b10443773b9cd0e6a50f5e
mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Store protection bits in high VMA flags

vma->vm_flags is an 'unsigned long', so has space for 32 flags
on 32-bit architectures.  The high 32 bits are unused on 64-bit
platforms.  We've steered away from using the unused high VMA
bits for things because we would have difficulty supporting it
on 32-bit.

Protection Keys are not available in 32-bit mode, so there is
no concern about supporting this feature in 32-bit mode or on
32-bit CPUs.

This patch carves out 4 bits from the high half of
vma->vm_flags and allows architectures to set config option
to make them available.

Sparse complains about these constants unless we explicitly
call them "UL".

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210208.81AF00D5@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig
include/linux/mm.h
mm/Kconfig
This page took 0.028329 seconds and 5 git commands to generate.