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Currently, we perform a locked update of the shadow entry when
allocating a page directory entry such that if two clients are
concurrently allocating neighbouring ranges we only insert one new entry
for the pair of them. However, we also need to serialise both clients
wrt to the actual entry in the HW table, or else we may allow one client
or even a third client to proceed ahead of the HW write. My handwave
before was that under the _pathological_ condition we would see the
scratch entry instead of the expected entry, causing a temporary
glitch. That starvation condition will eventually show up in practice, so
fix it.
The reason for the previous cheat was to avoid having to free the extra
allocation while under the spinlock. Now, we keep the extra entry
allocated until the end instead.
v2: Fix error paths for gen6
Fixes:
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| LICENSES | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
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.