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When clearing TDP MMU pages what have been disconnected from the paging structure root, set the SPTEs to a special non-present value which will not be overwritten by other threads. This is needed to prevent races in which a thread is clearing a disconnected page table, but another thread has already acquired a pointer to that memory and installs a mapping in an already cleared entry. This can lead to memory leaks and accounting errors. Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-23-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@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.