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Dave Hansen 430d4005b8 x86/mm: Comment _PAGE_GLOBAL mystery
I was mystified as to where the _PAGE_GLOBAL in the kernel page tables
for kernel text came from.  I audited all the places I could find, but
I missed one: head_64.S.

The page tables that we create in here live for a long time, and they
also have _PAGE_GLOBAL set, despite whether the processor supports it
or not.  It's harmless, and we got *lucky* that the pageattr code
accidentally clears it when we wipe it out of __supported_pte_mask and
then later try to mark kernel text read-only.

Comment some of these properties to make it easier to find and
understand in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205513.079BB265@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-12 09:05:58 +02:00
arch x86/mm: Comment _PAGE_GLOBAL mystery 2018-04-12 09:05:58 +02:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 16:15:32 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 17:46:37 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 16:50:39 -07:00
include Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 17:46:37 -07:00
init jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops 2018-03-28 13:42:05 -10:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 16:50:39 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-dma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 17:18:45 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 15:45:30 -07:00
net Kbuild fixes for v4.16 (3rd) 2018-03-30 18:53:57 -10:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts main drm pull request for v4.17 2018-04-02 07:59:23 -07:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound main drm pull request for v4.17 2018-04-02 07:59:23 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 11:06:34 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore ASN.1 auto generated files 2018-02-14 21:05:38 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email address for Gregory CLEMENT 2018-03-09 17:48:50 +01:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 16:15:32 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-02 14:37:03 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.