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Andrey Ryabinin 04b67022fb x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
KASAN fills kernel page tables with repeated values to map several
TBs of the virtual memory to the single kasan_zero_page:
  kasan_zero_p4d ->
    kasan_zero_pud ->
        kasan_zero_pmd->
            kasan_zero_pte->
                kasan_zero_page

Walking the whole KASAN shadow range takes a lot of time, especially
with 5-level page tables. Since we already know that all kasan page tables
eventually point to the kasan_zero_page we could call note_page()
right and avoid walking lower levels of the page tables.
This will not affect the output of the kernel_page_tables file,
but let us avoid spending time in page table walkers:

Before:

  $ time cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables > /dev/null

  real    0m55.855s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m55.840s

After:

  $ time cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables > /dev/null

  real    0m0.054s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.054s

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724152558.24689-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-25 11:22:09 +02:00
arch x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y 2017-07-25 11:22:09 +02:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-14 22:49:50 -07:00
Documentation x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y 2017-07-21 10:05:19 +02:00
drivers x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure 2017-07-20 11:37:58 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs binfmt_flat: Use %u to format u32 2017-07-16 09:24:05 -07:00
include compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __nostackprotector function attribute 2017-07-18 20:23:20 +02:00
init x86, swiotlb: Add memory encryption support 2017-07-18 11:38:03 +02:00
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kernel x86/mm, kexec: Allow kexec to be used with SME 2017-07-18 11:38:04 +02:00
lib swiotlb: Add warnings for use of bounce buffers with SME 2017-07-18 11:38:03 +02:00
mm x86/mm: Add support to access boot related data in the clear 2017-07-18 11:38:02 +02:00
net Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that 2017-07-15 12:44:02 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.13 (2nd) 2017-07-13 13:37:57 -07:00
security KEYS: DH: validate __spare field 2017-07-14 11:01:38 +10:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-14 12:44:00 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-14 21:57:25 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Second batch of KVM updates for v4.13 2017-07-15 10:18:16 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-07-15 10:59:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.13-rc1 2017-07-15 15:22:10 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.