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A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and turn the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page content can be fatal. One example is virtio-mem; while unplugged memory -- marked as PageOffline() can currently be read in the hypervisor, this will no longer be the case in the future; for example, when having a virtio-mem device backed by huge pages in the hypervisor. Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race with drivers that set PageOffline(). Let's introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) for synchronizing. page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set PageOffline() while frozen. page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about such races when setting a page PageOffline(). For simplicity, use a rwsem for now; neither drivers nor users are performance sensitive. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-5-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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.