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For pmds and puds, there are a couple of page table helper functions that
only make sense for large entries, like pxd_(mk)dirty/young/write etc.
We currently explicitly check if the entries are large, but in practice
those functions must never be used for normal entries, which point to lower
level page tables, so the code can be simplified.
This also fixes a theoretical bug, where common code could use one of the
functions before actually marking a pmd large, like this:
pmd = pmd_mkhuge(pmd_mkdirty(pmd))
With the current implementation, the resulting large pmd would not be dirty
as requested. This could in theory result in the loss of dirty information,
e.g. after collapsing into a transparent hugepage. Common code currently
always marks an entry large before using one of the functions, but there is
no hard requirement for this. The only requirement would be that it never
uses the functions for normal entries pointing to lower level page tables,
but they might be called before marking an entry large during its creation.
In order to avoid issues with future common code, and to simplify the page
table helpers, remove the checks for large entries and rely on common code
never using them for normal entries.
This was found by testing a patch from from Anshuman Khandual, which is
currently discussed on LKML ("mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture
page table helpers").
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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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.