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Address bytes shifted with a single 64 bit page table entry (any page table level) has been always hard coded as 3 (aka 2^3 = 8). Although intuitive it is not very readable or easy to reason about. Besides it is going to change with D128, where each 128 bit page table entry will shift address bytes by 4 (aka 2^4 = 16) instead. Let's just formalise this address bytes shift value into a new macro called PTDESC_ORDER establishing a logical abstraction, thus improving readability as well. While here re-organize EARLY_LEVEL macro along with its dependents for better clarity. This does not cause any functional change. Also replace all (PAGE_SHIFT - PTDESC_ORDER) instances with PTDESC_TABLE_SHIFT. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311045710.550625-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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 reStructuredText 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.