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[PATCH] x86/pkeys: Update documentation

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>

There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection
keys documentation.  The config option description only applied
to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current
code.  There was also a typo with the number of system calls.  I
also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided
facility, and where to find an implementation.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
---

 b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt |   14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt~pkeys-docfix Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
--- a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt~pkeys-docfix	2016-10-04 09:31:01.361928429 -0700
+++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt	2016-10-04 09:32:39.142383585 -0700
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ instruction fetches.
 
 =========================== Syscalls ===========================
 
-There are 2 system calls which directly interact with pkeys:
+There are 3 system calls which directly interact with pkeys:
 
 	int pkey_alloc(unsigned long flags, unsigned long init_access_rights)
 	int pkey_free(int pkey);
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ is no longer in use:
 	munmap(ptr, PAGE_SIZE);
 	pkey_free(pkey);
 
+(Note: pkey_set() is a wrapper for the RDPKRU and WRPKRU instructions.
+ An example implementation can be found in
+ tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c)
+
 =========================== Behavior ===========================
 
 The kernel attempts to make protection keys consistent with the
@@ -79,11 +83,3 @@ with a read():
 The kernel will send a SIGSEGV in both cases, but si_code will be set
 to SEGV_PKERR when violating protection keys versus SEGV_ACCERR when
 the plain mprotect() permissions are violated.
-
-=========================== Config Option ===========================
-
-This config option adds approximately 1.5kb of text. and 50 bytes of
-data to the executable.  A workload which does large O_DIRECT reads
-of holes in XFS files was run to exercise get_user_pages_fast().  No
-performance delta was observed with the config option
-enabled or disabled.
_

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[PATCH] x86/pkeys: Update documentation Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2016-10-04 18:40 +0200
  [tip:mm/pkeys] x86/pkeys: Update documentation tip-bot for Dave Hansen <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-05 10:50 +0200

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