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In order to service stage-2 faults in parallel, stage-2 table walkers must take exclusive ownership of the PTE being worked on. An additional requirement of the architecture is that software must perform a 'break-before-make' operation when changing the block size used for mapping memory. Roll these two concepts together into helpers for performing a 'break-before-make' sequence. Use a special PTE value to indicate a PTE has been locked by a software walker. Additionally, use an atomic compare-exchange to 'break' the PTE when the stage-2 page tables are possibly shared with another software walker. Elide the DSB + TLBI if the evicted PTE was invalid (and thus not subject to break-before-make). All of the atomics do nothing for now, as the stage-2 walker isn't fully ready to perform parallel walks. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107215855.1895367-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev
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
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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.