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Recently there was a fairly long thread about recoreable hardware page faults, how they can deadlock, and what to do about that. While the discussion is still fresh I figured good time to try and document the conclusions a bit. This documentation section explains what's the potential problem, and the remedies we've discussed, roughly ordered from best to worst. v2: Linus -> Linux typoe (Dave) v3: - Make it clear drivers only need to implement one option (Christian) - Make it clearer that implicit sync is out the window with exclusive fences (Christian) - Add the fairly theoretical option of segementing the memory (either statically or through dynamic checks at runtime for which piece of memory is managed how) and explain why it's not a great idea (Felix) References: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210107030127.20393-1-Felix.Kuehling@amd.com/ Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> c: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@intel.com> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210203152921.2429937-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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.