Re: [PATCH 08/65] powerpc/mm: Update _PAGE_KERNEL_RO

2016-04-05 Thread Balbir Singh
On 27/03/16 19:23, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > PS3 had used PPP bit hack to implement a read only mapping in the > kernel area. Since we are bolt mapping the ioremap area, it used > the pte flags _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER to get a PPP value of 0x3 > there by resulting in a read only mapping. This

[PATCH 08/65] powerpc/mm: Update _PAGE_KERNEL_RO

2016-03-27 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
PS3 had used PPP bit hack to implement a read only mapping in the kernel area. Since we are bolt mapping the ioremap area, it used the pte flags _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER to get a PPP value of 0x3 there by resulting in a read only mapping. This means the area can be accessed by user space, but ker