Privilege Levels, Execution Modes, and Delegation Boundaries: Review Checklist

Review checklist

Review Checklist for Privilege Levels, Execution Modes, and Delegation Boundaries is anchored on Privilege-transition latency and number of unauthorized accesses blocked by PMP/page-permission checks per billion instructions.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.

• Workload scope and KPI targets are explicit.

• Environment metadata is locked and reproducible.

• Mechanism classification is evidence-backed.

• Owner and rollback conditions are documented.

• Validation matrix covers correctness, perf, and power.

• Owners signed: CPU architecture lead, privileged ISA owner, firmware and boot owner, kernel porting owner, security validation owner.