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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2017-11-10 16:12:28 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-21 09:34:52 +0100
commitc51ff2c7fc45da8b18b28c4f15eca5a9975dfb59 (patch)
tree3827a27b7cb80ea898f49f49aba57bc067de801f /Documentation/x86
parentfd11a6496e12848d4eeb21029c2c288bbc638048 (diff)
x86/pkeys: Update documentation about availability
Now that CPUs that implement Memory Protection Keys are publicly available we can be a bit less oblique about where it is available. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171111001228.DC748A10@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a CPU feature
-which will be found on future Intel CPUs.
+Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a feature
+which is found on Intel's Skylake "Scalable Processor" Server CPUs.
+It will be avalable in future non-server parts.
+
+For anyone wishing to test or use this feature, it is available in
+Amazon's EC2 C5 instances and is known to work there using an Ubuntu
+17.04 image.
Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing page-based
protections, but without requiring modification of the page tables