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We will soon start annotating page-tables with new flags to track shared pages and such, and we will do so in valid mappings using software bits in the PTEs, as provided by the architecture. However, it is possible that we will need to use those flags to annotate invalid mappings as well in the future, similar to what we do to track page ownership in the host stage-2. In order to facilitate the annotation of invalid mappings with such flags, it would be preferable to re-use the same bits as for valid mappings (bits [58-55]), but these are currently used for ownership encoding. Since we have plenty of bits left to use in invalid mappings, move the ownership bits further down the PTE to avoid the conflict. Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809152448.1810400-9-qperret@google.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.