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There are two main use cases for mmu notifiers. One is by KVM which uses mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/end() to manage a software TLB. The other is to manage hardware TLBs which need to use the invalidate_range() callback because HW can establish new TLB entries at any time. Hence using start/end() can lead to memory corruption as these callbacks happen too soon/late during page unmap. mmu notifier users should therefore either use the start()/end() callbacks or the invalidate_range() callbacks. To make this usage clearer rename the invalidate_range() callback to arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() and update documention. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6f77248cd25545c8020a54b4e567e8b72be4dca1.1690292440.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Chaitanya Kumar Borah <chaitanya.kumar.borah@intel.com> Cc: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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.