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Extend FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE to break COW on anything mapped into a COW (i.e., private writable) mapping and adjust the documentation accordingly. FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE will now also break COW when encountering the shared zeropage, a pagecache page, a PFNMAP, ... inside a COW mapping, by properly replacing the mapped page/pfn by a private copy (an exclusive anonymous page). Note that only do_wp_page() needs care: hugetlb_wp() already handles FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE correctly. wp_huge_pmd()/wp_huge_pud() also handles it correctly, for example, splitting the huge zeropage on FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE such that we can handle FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE on the PTE level. This change is a requirement for reliable long-term R/O pinning in COW mappings. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
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.