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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-01 13:45:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-01 13:45:59 -0700 |
| commit | bb548bedf5c596f72b6388804b3cbd2f78c9dc98 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e795209dba2e75d1f3bbdf52247fe5066069366 /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | ae1a4113c24470007424ea0e1d2e31336edd7296 (diff) | |
| parent | 38f3e775e9c242f5430a9c08c11be7577f63a41c (diff) | |
Merge tag 'x86-build-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc dependency fixes, plus a documentation update about memory
protection keys support"
* tag 'x86-build-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/Kconfig: Update config and kernel doc for MPK feature on AMD
x86/boot: Discard .discard.unreachable for arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
x86/boot/build: Add phony targets in arch/x86/boot/Makefile to PHONY
x86/boot/build: Make 'make bzlilo' not depend on vmlinux or $(obj)/bzImage
x86/boot/build: Add cpustr.h to targets and remove clean-files
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst b/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst index 49d9833af871..ec575e72d0b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/protection-keys.rst @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Memory Protection Keys ====================== 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. +which is found on Intel's Skylake (and later) "Scalable Processor" +Server CPUs. It will be available in future non-server Intel parts +and future AMD processors. 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 |