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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
results are dummy.
config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
- prompt "Intel Memory Protection Keys"
+ prompt "Memory Protection Keys"
def_bool y
# Note: only available in 64-bit mode
- depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
+ depends on X86_64 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
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