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This patch allows do_fault() to trigger on !pte_none() cases too. This prepares for the pte markers to be handled by do_fault() just like none pte. To achieve this, instead of unconditionally check against pte_none() in finish_fault(), we may hit the case that the orig_pte was some pte marker so what we want to do is to replace the pte marker with some valid pte entry. Then if orig_pte was set we'd want to check the current *pte (under pgtable lock) against orig_pte rather than none pte. Right now there's no solid way to safely reference orig_pte because when pmd is not allocated handle_pte_fault() will not initialize orig_pte, so it's not safe to reference it. There's another solution proposed before this patch to do pte_clear() for vmf->orig_pte for pmd==NULL case, however it turns out it'll break arm32 because arm32 could have assumption that pte_t* pointer will always reside on a real ram32 pgtable, not any kernel stack variable. To solve this, we add a new flag FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID, and it'll be set along with orig_pte when there is valid orig_pte, or it'll be cleared when orig_pte was not initialized. It'll be updated every time we call handle_pte_fault(), so e.g. if a page fault retry happened it'll be properly updated along with orig_pte. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/710c48c9-406d-e4c5-a394-10501b951316@samsung.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] [peterx@redhat.com: fix crash reported by Marek] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ylb9rXJyPm8/ao8f@xz-m1.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014836.14077-1-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.