Will Deacon
8e958839e4
The "SRMMU" supports 4k pages using a fixed three-level walk with a
256-entry PGD and 64-entry PMD/PTE levels. In order to fill a page
with a 'pgtable_t', the SRMMU code allocates four native PTE tables
into a single PTE allocation and similarly for the PMD level, leading
to an array of 16 physical pointers in a 'pmd_t'
This breaks the generic code which assumes READ_ONCE(*pmd) will be
word sized.
In a manner similar to ef22d8abd8 ("m68k: mm: Restructure Motorola
MMU page-table layout"), this patch implements the native page-table
setup directly. This significantly increases the page-table memory
overhead, but will be addresses in a subsequent patch.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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.