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

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

2010-10-12 Thread Marco Stornelli
2010/10/12 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 >> > mappe

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 mapp