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The KVM page-table code is intricately tied into the kernel page-table code and re-uses the pte/pmd/pud/p4d/pgd macros directly in an attempt to reduce code duplication. Unfortunately, the reality is that there is an awful lot of code required to make this work, and at the end of the day you're limited to creating page-tables with the same configuration as the host kernel. Furthermore, lifting the page-table code to run directly at EL2 on a non-VHE system (as we plan to to do in future patches) is practically impossible due to the number of dependencies it has on the core kernel. Introduce a framework for walking Armv8 page-tables configured independently from the host kernel. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-3-will@kernel.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.