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Currently only idle_task_exit() explicitly switches (switch_mm) to init_mm. This causes the kernel asce to be loaded into cr7 and therefore it would be used for potential user space accesses. This is currently no problem since idle_task_exit() is nearly the last thing a CPU executes before it is taken down. However things might change - and therefore make sure that always the invalid asce is used for cr7 when active_mm is init_mm. This makes sure that all potential user space accesses will fail, instead of accessing kernel address space. Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.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.