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Rework the way physical pages are set no-dat / dat: The old way is: - Rely on that all pages are initially marked "dat" - Allocate page tables for the kernel mapping - Enable dat - Walk the whole kernel mapping and set PG_arch_1 bit in all struct pages that belong to pages of kernel page tables - Walk all struct pages and test and clear the PG_arch_1 bit. If the bit is not set, set the page state to no-dat - For all subsequent page table allocations, set the page state to dat (remove the no-dat state) on allocation time Change this rather complex logic to a simpler approach: - Set the whole physical memory (all pages) to "no-dat" - Explicitly set those page table pages to "dat" which are part of the kernel image (e.g. swapper_pg_dir) - For all subsequent page table allocations, set the page state to dat (remove the no-dat state) on allocation time In result the code is simpler, and this also allows to get rid of one odd usage of the PG_arch_1 bit. Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.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.