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SubjectRe: a question about protection_map[]
On 2016/7/11 21:30, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 06:12:30PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We can use mprotect to set read only or read/write.
>>
>> mprotect_fixup()
>> vma_set_page_prot()
>> vm_pgprot_modify()
>> vm_get_page_prot()
>> protection_map[vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)]
>>
>> The following code shows that prots from __P001(PROT_READ) and __P010(PROT_WRITE)
>> are the same, so how does it distinguish read only or read/write from mprotect?
>
> It doesn't.
>
> Write protection will be removed by fault handler on next write access to
> the page. Somewhat suboptiomal, but zero page implemenation relies on this
> to work properly.
>

Hi Kirill,

I know, PAGE_READONLY and PAGE_COPY are both missed _PAGE_RW,
so it will cause page fault, then we will set new prot flag from
vma, right?

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu

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