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We can set a bit inside the ppGTT PTE to indicate a page is read-only; writes from the GPU will be discarded. We can use this to protect pages and in particular support read-only userptr mappings (necessary for importing PROT_READ vma). Signed-off-by: Jon Bloomfield <jon.bloomfield@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180712185315.3288-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.