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The EL2 'vmemmap' array in nVHE Protected mode is currently very sparse: only memory pages owned by the hypervisor itself have a matching 'struct hyp_page'. However, as the size of this struct has been reduced significantly since its introduction, it appears that we can now afford to back the vmemmap for all of memory. Having an easily accessible 'struct hyp_page' for every physical page in memory provides the hypervisor with a simple mechanism to store metadata (e.g. a refcount) that wouldn't otherwise fit in the very limited number of software bits available in the host stage-2 page-table entries. This will be used in subsequent patches when pinning host memory pages for use by the hypervisor at EL2. Tested-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110190259.26861-4-will@kernel.org
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.