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It is usually safe to call wp_page_copy() under the VMA lock. The only unsafe situation is when no anon_vma has been allocated for this VMA, and we have to look at adjacent VMAs to determine if their anon_vma can be shared. Since this happens only for the first COW of a page in this VMA, the majority of calls to wp_page_copy() do not need to fall back to the mmap_sem. Add vmf_anon_prepare() as an alternative to anon_vma_prepare() which will return RETRY if we currently hold the VMA lock and need to allocate an anon_vma. This lets us drop the check in do_wp_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006195318.4087158-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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.