Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:12:04 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, pkeys: update documentation about availability |
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* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > 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.hansen@linux.intel.com> > --- > > b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt | 9 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff -puN Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt~pkeys-update Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt > --- a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt~pkeys-update 2017-11-09 10:36:53.381467202 -0800 > +++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt 2017-11-09 10:43:15.527466249 -0800 > @@ -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
Could we please first fix the pkeys self-test? One of the testcases doesn't build at all:
gcc -m32 -o /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys_32 -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -pthread -Wall -no-pie protection_keys.c -lrt -ldl -lm In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:57:0, from protection_keys.c:33: protection_keys.c: In function ‘signal_handler’: protection_keys.c:253:6: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘.’ token u64 si_pkey; ^
plus, on a related note, the MPX testcase produces annoying warnings:
gcc -m32 -o /home/mingo/tip/tools/testing/selftests/x86/mpx-mini-test_32 -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -pthread -Wall -no-pie mpx-mini-test.c -lrt -ldl -lm mpx-mini-test.c: In function ‘insn_test_failed’: mpx-mini-test.c:1406:3: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] printf("bte[1]: %lx\n", bte->contents[1]); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mpx-mini-test.c:1407:3: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] printf("bte[2]: %lx\n", bte->contents[2]); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mpx-mini-test.c:1408:3: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] printf("bte[3]: %lx\n", bte->contents[3]); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks,
Ingo
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