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When events are enabled within the various tracing facilities, such as ftrace/perf, the event_mutex is held. As events are enabled pages are accessed. We do not want page faults to occur under this lock. Instead queue the fault to a workqueue to be handled in a process context safe way without the lock. The enable address is marked faulting while the async fault-in occurs. This ensures that we don't attempt to fault-in more than is necessary. Once the page has been faulted in, an address write is re-attempted. If the page couldn't fault-in, then we wait until the next time the event is enabled to prevent any potential infinite loops. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-5-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.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.