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Many xtensa CPU cores without full MMU still have memory protection features capable of raising exceptions for invalid instruction fetches/data access. Allow handling such exceptions. This improves behavior of processes that pass invalid memory pointers to syscalls in noMMU configs: in case of exception the kernel instead of killing the process is now able to return -EINVAL from a syscall. Introduce CONFIG_PFAULT that controls whether protection fault code is enabled and register handlers for common memory protection exceptions when it is enabled. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.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.