Commit-ID: c51ff2c7fc45da8b18b28c4f15eca5a9975dfb59 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/c51ff2c7fc45da8b18b28c4f15eca5a9975dfb59 Author: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:12:28 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:34:52 +0100
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.han...@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171111001228.dc748...@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt index fa46dcb..ecb0d2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ -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
