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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-27 01:11:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-27 01:11:54 +0300 |
| commit | 02fc87b117a9b9ec325089d098fce86ed11966bd (patch) | |
| tree | 537176c1c32b25c781bf8974af854a4ee4dbc77a /Documentation | |
| parent | 6830c8db58c2616d8ba2bf45e7d98dca5f69b07f (diff) | |
| parent | 12a78d43de767eaf8fb272facb7a7b6f2dc6a9df (diff) | |
| download | linux-02fc87b117a9b9ec325089d098fce86ed11966bd.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- topology enumeration fixes
- KASAN fix
- two entry fixes (not yet the big series related to KASLR)
- remove obsolete code
- instruction decoder fix
- better /dev/mem sanity checks, hopefully working better this time
- pkeys fixes
- two ACPI fixes
- 5-level paging related fixes
- UMIP fixes that should make application visible faults more debuggable
- boot fix for weird virtualization environment
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/decoder: Add new TEST instruction pattern
x86/PCI: Remove unused HyperTransport interrupt support
x86/umip: Fix insn_get_code_seg_params()'s return value
x86/boot/KASLR: Remove unused variable
x86/entry/64: Add missing irqflags tracing to native_load_gs_index()
x86/mm/kasan: Don't use vmemmap_populate() to initialize shadow
x86/entry/64: Fix entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe() IRQ tracing
x86/pkeys/selftests: Fix protection keys write() warning
x86/pkeys/selftests: Rename 'si_pkey' to 'siginfo_pkey'
x86/mpx/selftests: Fix up weird arrays
x86/pkeys: Update documentation about availability
x86/umip: Print a warning into the syslog if UMIP-protected instructions are used
x86/smpboot: Fix __max_logical_packages estimate
x86/topology: Avoid wasting 128k for package id array
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Cache logical pkg id in uncore driver
x86/acpi: Reduce code duplication in mp_override_legacy_irq()
x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully
x86/boot: Fix boot failure when SMP MP-table is based at 0
x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses
x86/selftests: Add test for mapping placement for 5-level paging
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt index fa46dcb347bc..ecb0d2dadfb7 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 |