Memory protection keys

Posted May 14, 2015 18:14 UTC (Thu) by hansendc (subscriber, #7363)
In reply to: Memory protection keys by cotte
Parent article: Memory protection keys

Yes, the concept is not a new one in hardware. At least x86, s390, powerpc and ia64 have some form of protection keys. x86 was the outlier for *not* having it.

However, there is currently no general support for these features on any of these architectures in Linux. These patches are the first proposal I know of to use this hardware in Linux in any substantive way.

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Memory protection keys

Posted May 19, 2015 17:32 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

> At least x86, s390, powerpc and ia64 have some form of protection keys. x86 was the outlier for *not* having it.

Typo? Which side is x86 supposed to be on and what did you intend?

Memory protection keys

Posted Nov 12, 2016 17:13 UTC (Sat) by eSyr (guest, #112051) [Link]

arm, maybe?