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.
Peter Xu
authored
This is the last missing piece of the COW-during-fork effort when there're pinned pages found. One can reference 70e806e4 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes", 2020-09-27) for more information, since we do similar things here rather than pte this time, but just for hugetlb. Note that after Jason's recent work on 57efa1fe ("mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork", 2020-12-15) which is safer and easier to understand, we're safe now within the whole copy_page_range() against gup-fast, we don't need the wr-protect trick that proposed in 70e806e4 anymore. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210217233547.93892-6-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by:Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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