mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Store protection bits in high VMA flags

vma->vm_flags is an 'unsigned long', so has space for 32 flags
on 32-bit architectures.  The high 32 bits are unused on 64-bit
platforms.  We've steered away from using the unused high VMA
bits for things because we would have difficulty supporting it
on 32-bit.

Protection Keys are not available in 32-bit mode, so there is
no concern about supporting this feature in 32-bit mode or on
32-bit CPUs.

This patch carves out 4 bits from the high half of
vma->vm_flags and allows architectures to set config option
to make them available.

Sparse complains about these constants unless we explicitly
call them "UL".

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Valentin Rothberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Dave Hansen 2016-02-12 13:02:08 -08:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -669,3 +669,6 @@ config ZONE_DEVICE
config FRAME_VECTOR
bool
config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
bool