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These are the new priviledged interfaces to the VMM backends, and expose some functionality that wasn't previously available. It's now possible to allocate a chunk of address-space (even all of it), without causing page tables to be allocated up-front, and then map into it at arbitrary locations. This is the basic primitive used to support features such as sparse mapping, or to allow userspace control over its own address-space, or HMM (where the GPU driver isn't in control of the address-space layout). Rather than being tied to a subtle combination of memory object and VMA properties, arguments that control map flags (ro, kind, etc) are passed explicitly at map time. The compatibility hacks to implement the old frontend on top of the new driver backends have been replaced with something similar to implement the old frontend's interfaces on top of the new frontend. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.