mark pages as _guarded

[vasanthsri]

Dear All,

We have an user space program (real time application) which mmap's ~1.5 GB data space and 1 GB of program space and like to mark few pages (memory segments) as "Guarded" to avoid speculative fetching.

Is there any wrapper in Linux which helps to mark the pages -or- memory as guarded (_PAGE_GUARDED) i.e. G-PAGE ?

Processor : P4040

Linux        : 2.6.34.12

Thanks in Advance.

[scottwood · Accepted solution]

There is no existing mechanism to do this.

[vasanthsri]

Thanks Scott for the confirmation on this regard. I thought, there is some -hidden- protection mechanism implemented like PROT_GUARD which will help to mark these pages as "guarded" from application (userland) perspective.