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There are situations where a change to a single PTE could cause the contpte block in which it resides to become foldable (i.e. could be repainted with the contiguous bit). Such situations arise, for example, when user space temporarily changes protections, via mprotect, for individual pages, such can be the case for certain garbage collectors. We would like to detect when such a PTE change occurs. However this can be expensive due to the amount of checking required. Therefore only perform the checks when an indiviual PTE is modified via mprotect (ptep_modify_prot_commit() -> set_pte_at() -> set_ptes(nr=1)) and only when we are setting the final PTE in a contpte-aligned block. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-19-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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.