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Juergen Gross c51b3c639e xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device
For passing arbitrary data from user land to the Xen hypervisor the
Xen tools today are using mlock()ed buffers. Unfortunately the kernel
might change access rights of such buffers for brief periods of time
e.g. for page migration or compaction, leading to access faults in the
hypervisor, as the hypervisor can't use the locks of the kernel.

In order to solve this problem add a new device node to the Xen privcmd
driver to easily allocate hypercall buffers via mmap(). The memory is
allocated in the kernel and just mapped into user space. Marked as
VM_IO the user mapping will not be subject to page migration et al.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2018-06-22 08:26:42 +02:00
arch xen: share start flags between PV and PVH 2018-06-19 13:51:00 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-11 14:14:46 -07:00
drivers xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device 2018-06-22 08:26:42 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs some small SMB3 fixes for 4.17-rc5, some for stable 2018-05-12 18:49:53 -07:00
include xen: share start flags between PV and PVH 2018-06-19 13:51:00 +02:00
init init: fix false positives in W+X checking 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-05-13 10:53:08 -07:00
lib another dma-mapping fix for 4.17-rc: 2018-05-13 10:28:53 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-11 14:14:46 -07:00
samples bpf: sockmap sample use clang flag, -target bpf 2018-04-23 23:42:21 +02:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: fix error when addr2line output contains discriminator 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl 2018-05-02 08:54:54 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-05-13 10:44:32 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 4.17, take #2 2018-05-05 23:05:31 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.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 Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
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 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc5 2018-05-13 16:15:17 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
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.