Re: [PATCH 14(16] pramfs: memory protection

2010-10-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:32:10PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: Il 10/10/2010 18:46, Andi Kleen ha scritto: This won't work at all on x86 because you don't handle large pages. And it doesn't work on x86-64 because the first 2GB are double mapped (direct and kernel text mapping)

Re: [PATCH 14(16] pramfs: memory protection

2010-10-12 Thread Marco Stornelli
2010/10/12 Andi Kleen a...@firstfloor.org: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:32:10PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: Il 10/10/2010 18:46, Andi Kleen ha scritto: This won't work at all on x86 because you don't handle large pages. And it doesn't work on x86-64 because the first 2GB are double

Re: [PATCH 14(16] pramfs: memory protection

2010-10-12 Thread Andi Kleen
per-arch?! Wow. Mmm...maybe I have to change something at fs level to avoid that. An alternative could be to use the follow_pte solution but avoid the protection via Kconfig if the fs is used on some archs (ia64 or MIPS), with large pages and so on. An help of the kernel community to know all