[v5,23/30] arm64: add Permission Overlay Extension Kconfig

Commit Message

Joey Gouly Aug. 22, 2024, 3:11 p.m. UTC

Now that support for POE and Protection Keys has been implemented, add a
config to allow users to actually enable it.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <[e-mail]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[e-mail]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git arch/arm64/Kconfig arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a2f8ff354ca6..35dfc6275328 100644
--- arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2137,6 +2137,29 @@  config ARM64_EPAN
 	  if the cpu does not implement the feature.
 endmenu # "ARMv8.7 architectural features"
 
+menu "ARMv8.9 architectural features"
+
+config ARM64_POE
+	prompt "Permission Overlay Extension"
+	def_bool y
+	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
+	select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
+	help
+	  The Permission Overlay Extension is used to implement Memory
+	  Protection Keys. Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for
+	  enforcing page-based protections, but without requiring modification
+	  of the page tables when an application changes protection domains.
+
+	  For details, see Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst
+
+	  If unsure, say y.
+
+config ARCH_PKEY_BITS
+	int
+	default 3
+
+endmenu # "ARMv8.9 architectural features"
+
 config ARM64_SVE
 	bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
 	default y