Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-06-10 Thread Christopher M. Riedl
On Wed Jun 3, 2020 at 8:58 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > Le 03/06/2020 à 07:19, Christopher M. Riedl a écrit : > > x86 supports the notion of a temporary mm which restricts access to > > temporary PTEs to a single CPU. A temporary mm is useful for situations > > where a CPU needs to perfo

Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-06-02 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 03/06/2020 à 07:19, Christopher M. Riedl a écrit : x86 supports the notion of a temporary mm which restricts access to temporary PTEs to a single CPU. A temporary mm is useful for situations where a CPU needs to perform sensitive operations (such as patching a STRICT_KERNEL_RWX kernel) requ

[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-06-02 Thread Christopher M. Riedl
x86 supports the notion of a temporary mm which restricts access to temporary PTEs to a single CPU. A temporary mm is useful for situations where a CPU needs to perform sensitive operations (such as patching a STRICT_KERNEL_RWX kernel) requiring temporary mappings without exposing said mappings to