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The TBA and TMA, along with an unused IB allocation, reside at low addresses in the VM address space. A stray VM fault which hits these pages must be serviced by making their page table entries invalid. The scheduler depends upon these pages being resident and fails, preventing a debugger from inspecting the failure state. By relocating these pages above 47 bits in the VM address space they can only be reached when bits [63:48] are set to 1. This makes it much less likely for a misbehaving program to generate accesses to them. The current placement at VA (PAGE_SIZE*2) is readily hit by a NULL access with a small offset. Signed-off-by: Jay Cornwall <jay.cornwall@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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.