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From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 2026 13:51:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407125133.564182-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com> (raw)

The ProtectionKey entry was added in v4.9; back then it was
x86-specific, but it now lives in generic code and applies to all
architectures supporting pkeys (currently x86, power, arm64).

Time to document it: add a paragraph to proc.rst about the
ProtectionKey entry.

Reported-by: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
---
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index b0c0d1b45b99..d673cad7dbe4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects.
 naturally aligned THP pages of any currently enabled size. 1 if true, 0
 otherwise.
 
+If both the kernel and the system support protection keys (pkeys),
+"ProtectionKey" indicates the memory protection key associated with the
+virtual memory area.
+
 "VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the
 kernel flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter
 encoded manner. The codes are the following:
-- 
2.51.2



             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-07 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-07 12:51 Kevin Brodsky [this message]
2026-04-07 13:00 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-04-07 14:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-07 14:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-07 14:42 ` Dave Hansen
2026-04-07 15:12   ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-07 18:58     ` Randy Dunlap
2026-04-08  7:05       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-08  7:15         ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-08  7:39           ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-08  7:50             ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-08  7:54               ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-08  7:06       ` Kevin Brodsky

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