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A lockless page table walk should be safe against parallel THP collapse, THP split and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)/parallel fault. This patch makes sure kernel won't reload the pteval when checking for different conditions. The patch also added a check for pte_present to make sure the kernel is indeed operating on a PTE and not a pointer to level 0 table page. The pfn value we find here can be different from the actual pfn on which machine check happened. This can happen if we raced with a parallel update of the page table. In such a scenario we end up isolating a wrong pfn. But that doesn't have any other side effect. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200505071729.54912-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.