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VM_PAT annoyed me too much and wasted too much of my time, let's clean PAT handling up and remove VM_PAT. This should sort out various issues with VM_PAT we discovered recently, and will hopefully make the whole code more stable and easier to maintain. In essence: we stop letting PAT mode mess with VMAs and instead lift what to track/untrack to the MM core. We remember per VMA which pfn range we tracked in a new struct we attach to a VMA (we have space without exceeding 192 bytes), use a kref to share it among VMAs during split/mremap/fork, and automatically untrack once the kref drops to 0. This implies that we'll keep tracking a full pfn range even after partially unmapping it, until fully unmapping it; but as that case was mostly broken before, this at least makes it work in a way that is least intrusive to VMA handling. Shrinking with mremap() used to work in a hacky way, now we'll similarly keep the original pfn range tacked even after this form of partial unmap. Does anybody care about that? Unlikely. If we run into issues, we could likely handled that (adjust the tracking) when our kref drops to 1 while freeing a VMA. But it adds more complexity, so avoid that for now. Briefly tested with the new pfnmap selftests [1]. This patch (of 11): Let's factor it out to make the code easier to grasp. Drop one comment where it is now rather obvious what is happening. Use it also in pgprot_writecombine()/pgprot_writethrough() where clearing the old cachemode might not be required, but given that we are already doing a function call, no need to care about this micro-optimization. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250512123424.637989-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250512123424.637989-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509153033.952746-1-david@redhat.com [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [x86 bits] Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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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.