Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-05-01 Thread Christopher M. Riedl
On Wed Apr 29, 2020 at 7:48 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > Le 29/04/2020 à 04:05, 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 perf

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-05-01 Thread Christopher M. Riedl
On Wed Apr 29, 2020 at 7:39 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > Le 29/04/2020 à 04:05, 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 perf

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-04-28 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 29/04/2020 à 04:05, 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

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-04-28 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 29/04/2020 à 04:05, 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

[RFC PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/mm: Introduce temporary mm

2020-04-28 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