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The new attribute indicates that the kernel copies DMA pages on fork, hence libibverbs' fork support through madvise and MADV_DONTFORK is not needed. The introduced attribute is always reported as supported since the kernel has the patch that added the copy-on-fork behavior. This allows the userspace library to identify older vs newer kernel versions. Extra care should be taken when backporting this patch as it relies on the fact that the copy-on-fork patch is merged, hence no check for support is added. Don't backport this patch unless you also have the following series: commit70e806e4e6("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes") and commit4eae4efa2c("hugetlb: do early cow when page pinned on src mm"). Fixes:70e806e4e6("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes") Fixes:4eae4efa2c("hugetlb: do early cow when page pinned on src mm") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210418121025.66849-1-galpress@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.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 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.