Linux kernel
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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.
Mike Kravetz
authored
With the new hugetlb vma lock in place, it can also be used to handle page fault races with file truncation. The lock is taken at the beginning of the code fault path in read mode. During truncation, it is taken in write mode for each vma which has the file mapped. The file's size (i_size) is modified before taking the vma lock to unmap. How are races handled? The page fault code checks i_size early in processing after taking the vma lock. If the fault is beyond i_size, the fault is aborted. If the fault is not beyond i_size the fault will continue and a new page will be added to the file. It could be that truncation code modifies i_size after the check in fault code. That is OK, as truncation code will soon remove the page. The truncation code will wait until the fault is finished, as it must obtain the vma lock in write mode. This patch cleans up/removes late checks in the fault paths that try to back out pages racing with truncation. As noted above, we just let the truncation code remove the pages. [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: fix reserve_alloc set but not used compiler warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yyj7HsJWfHDoU24U@monkey Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-10-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by:Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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