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Doing some extended tests and polishing the man page update for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), I realized that we end up converting also SIGBUS (via -EFAULT) to -EINVAL, making it look like yet another madvise() user error. We want to report only problematic mappings and permission problems that the user could have know as -EINVAL. Let's not convert -EFAULT arising due to SIGBUS (or SIGSEGV) to -EINVAL, but instead indicate -EFAULT to user space. While we could also convert it to -ENOMEM, using -EFAULT looks more helpful when user space might want to troubleshoot what's going wrong: MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) is not part of an final Linux release and we can still adjust the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210726154932.102880-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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.