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-Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a CPU feature
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-which will be found on future Intel CPUs.
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+Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a feature
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+which is found on Intel's Skylake "Scalable Processor" Server CPUs.
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+It will be avalable in future non-server parts.
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+For anyone wishing to test or use this feature, it is available in
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+Amazon's EC2 C5 instances and is known to work there using an Ubuntu
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+17.04 image.
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Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing page-based
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Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing page-based
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protections, but without requiring modification of the page tables
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protections, but without requiring modification of the page tables
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