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.
Nadav Amit
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Open-code on_each_cpu_cond_mask() in native_flush_tlb_others() to optimize the code. Open-coding eliminates the need for the indirect branch that is used to call is_lazy(), and in CPUs that are vulnerable to Spectre v2, it eliminates the retpoline. In addition, it allows to use a preallocated cpumask to compute the CPUs that should be. This would later allow us not to adapt on_each_cpu_cond_mask() to support local and remote functions. Note that calling tlb_is_not_lazy() for every CPU that needs to be flushed, as done in native_flush_tlb_multi() might look ugly, but it is equivalent to what is currently done in on_each_cpu_cond_mask(). Actually, native_flush_tlb_multi() does it more efficiently since it avoids using an indirect branch for the matter. Signed-off-by:Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
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