On 02/21/2018 05:55 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > #define PAGE_SIZE (0x1UL << 16) > -static inline int cpu_has_pku(void) > +static inline bool is_pkey_supported(void) > { > - return 1; > + /* > + * No simple way to determine this. > + * lets try allocating a key and see if it succeeds. > + */ > + int ret = sys_pkey_alloc(0, 0); > + > + if (ret > 0) { > + sys_pkey_free(ret); > + return true; > + } > + return false; > } The point of doing this was to have a test for the CPU that way separate from the syscalls. Can you leave cpu_has_pkeys() in place?