Commit 38f3e775 authored by Babu Moger's avatar Babu Moger Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/Kconfig: Update config and kernel doc for MPK feature on AMD

AMD's next generation of EPYC processors support the MPK (Memory
Protection Keys) feature. Update the dependency and documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBabu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159068199556.26992.17733929401377275140.stgit@naples-babu.amd.com
parent d6ee6529
......@@ -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
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......@@ -1887,10 +1887,10 @@ config X86_UMIP
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
---help---
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