Will Deacon
60bccaa671
The SRMMU page-table allocator is not compatible with SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
for two major reasons:
1. Pages are allocated via memblock, and therefore the ptl is not
cleared by prep_new_page(), which is expected by ptlock_init()
2. Multiple PTE tables can exist in a single page, causing them to
share the same ptl and deadlock when attempting to take the same
lock twice (e.g. as part of copy_page_range()).
Ensure that SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS is not selected for SPARC32.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.