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Using our knowledge of where the physical kernel sections start and end we can split mapping of lowmem and kernel apart. This is helpful when you want to place the kernel independently from lowmem and not be limited to putting it into lowmem only, but also into places such as the VMALLOC area. We extensively rewrite the lowmem mapping code to account for all cases where the kernel image overlaps with the lowmem in different ways. This is helpful to handle situations which occur when the kernel is loaded in different places and makes it possible to place the kernel in a more random manner which is done with e.g. KASLR. We sprinkle some comments with illustrations and pr_debug() over it so it is also very evident to readers what is happening. We now use the kernel_sec_start and kernel_sec_end instead of relying on __pa() (phys_to_virt) to provide this. This is helpful if we want to resolve physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical mappings at runtime rather than compiletime, especially if we are not using patch phys to virt. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.