GSoC project: Memory protection (Ticket no: 2904)

[Gedare Bloom]

Hi Rajiv,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:40 AM Rajiv Vaidyanathan
<rajiv.vaidyanathan4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello RTEMS community,
>
> I am interested in the ticket: Memory protection. I saw that this topic has been pursued a few times in GSoC. It would be great if someone can let me know the current status of this project and guide me about what are the contributions that can be done this year.
>
Yes, this is a frequently attempted project that slowly makes progress
over time. I think that Utkarsh has gotten somewhat close to a
workable solution, but there were some design flaws in his approach
for task stack protection (mainly, iterating over all the tasks) that
are still lingering.

There could be enough work here to pick up from his progress. The
major issue would be figuring out what  the final state of his code is
in, and to dig in to the design and implementation details to write a
concrete proposal how to bring task stack protection to a production
state. There may be other directions to consider as well, such as
improving the risc-v MMU support perhaps.

> Thanks and regards,
> Rajiv
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