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This makes the pte_present check stricter by checking for additional _PAGE_PTE bit. A level 1 pte pointer (THP pte) can be switched to a pointer to level 0 pte page table page by following two operations. 1) THP split. 2) madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) in parallel to page fault. A lockless page table walk need to make sure we can handle such changes gracefully. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200505071729.54912-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.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.