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SETUPMAPPING is a command for use with 'virtiofsd', a fuse-over-virtio implementation; it may find use in other fuse impelementations as well in which the kernel does not have access to the address space of the daemon directly. A SETUPMAPPING operation causes a section of a file to be mapped into a memory window visible to the kernel. The offsets in the file and the window are defined by the kernel performing the operation. The daemon may reject the request, for reasons including permissions and limited resources. When a request perfectly overlaps a previous mapping, the previous mapping is replaced. When a mapping partially overlaps a previous mapping, the previous mapping is split into one or two smaller mappings. REMOVEMAPPING is the complement to SETUPMAPPING; it unmaps a range of mapped files from the window visible to the kernel. The map_alignment field communicates the alignment constraint for FUSE_SETUPMAPPING/FUSE_REMOVEMAPPING and allows the daemon to constrain the addresses and file offsets chosen by the kernel. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.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.