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Andrea Arcangeli 5a281062af userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86
Accurate userfaultfd WP tracking is possible by tracking exactly which
virtual memory ranges were writeprotected by userland.  We can't relay
only on the RW bit of the mapped pagetable because that information is
destroyed by fork() or KSM or swap.  If we were to relay on that, we'd
need to stay on the safe side and generate false positive wp faults for
every swapped out page.

[peterx@redhat.com: append _PAGE_UFD_WP to _PAGE_CHG_MASK]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
Documentation mm/page_reporting: add free page reporting documentation 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
block SCSI misc on 20200402 2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
drivers virtio-balloon: switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
fs mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
include userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
init userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
kernel mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
lib New tracing features: 2020-04-05 10:36:18 -07:00
mm userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
net 9p pull request for inclusion in 5.7 2020-04-06 08:46:59 -07:00
samples SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
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security Keyrings fixes 2020-04-04 12:24:47 -07:00
sound SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
tools perf updates all over the place: 2020-04-05 12:26:24 -07:00
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virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS powerpc updates for 5.7 2020-04-05 11:12:59 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.7 2020-03-31 16:03:39 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.