Hi, I have a couple of questions about the virtual memory subsystem in seL4.
1. Intel's Memory Protection keys let a process restrict the access to given virtual address ranges based on a key. This key is the bit 62:59 of the virtual address. It is stored in the PTE of the level 4/5 Page Table. I want to use this feature in my project.
Does seL4 support the setting of Memory Protection keys for virtual addresses? I couldn't find any mention of it in the source. I understand that if I use the current API of "seL4_X86_PageTable_Map" with those higher bits of the vaddr set, the kernel will ignore them. Is my understanding correct?
Furthermore, was a decision made not to support MPK at some point?
2. As per section 7.3 of the seL4 manual, seL4 doesn't allow sharing of page tables. I am trying to understand the reasoning behind this. Was this done to aid verification?
Thanks, Sidhartha S Agrawal