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Linus Torvalds f81fdd0c4a mm: document warning in move_normal_pmd() and make it warn only once 
Naresh Kamboju reported that the LTP tests can cause warnings on i386
going back all the way to v5.0, and bisected it to commit 2c91bd4a4e
("mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions").

The warning in move_normal_pmd() is actually mostly correct, but we have
a very unusual special case at process creation time, when we may move
the stack down with an overlapping mode (kind of like a "memmove()"
except using the page tables).

And when you have just the right condition of "move a large initial
stack by the right alignment in the end, but with the early part of the
move being only page-aligned", we'll be in a situation where we're
trying to move a normal PMD entry on top of an already existing - but
now empty - PMD entry.

The warning is still worth having, in case it ever triggers other cases,
and perhaps as a reminder that we could do the stack move case more
efficiently (although it's clearly rare enough that it probably doesn't
matter).

But make it do WARN_ON_ONCE(), so that you can't flood the logs with it.

And add a *big* comment above it to explain and remind us what's going
on, because it took some figuring out to see how this could trigger.
Kudos to Joel Fernandes for debugging this.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Debugged-and-acked-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2020-07-13 11:37:39 -07:00
Documentation Extend coding-style with inclusive-terminology recommendations. 2020-07-10 21:15:25 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch Xtensa fixes for v5.8: 2020-07-12 13:29:07 -07:00
block block-5.8-2020-07-10 2020-07-10 09:55:46 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix use-after-free in af_alg_accept() due to bh_lock_sock() 2020-06-18 17:09:54 +10:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20200711 2020-07-11 18:15:17 -07:00
fs io_uring-5.8-2020-07-12 2020-07-12 12:17:58 -07:00
include RISC-V Fixes for 5.8-rc5 (ideally) 2020-07-11 19:22:46 -07:00
init kbuild: fix CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK(_STATIC) for cross-compilation with Clang 2020-07-02 00:57:45 +09:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel RISC-V Fixes for 5.8-rc5 (ideally) 2020-07-11 19:22:46 -07:00
lib RISC-V Fixes for 5.8-rc5 (ideally) 2020-07-11 19:22:46 -07:00
mm mm: document warning in move_normal_pmd() and make it warn only once 2020-07-13 11:37:39 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-07-10 18:16:22 -07:00
samples samples/vfs: avoid warning in statx override 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Move -Wtype-limits to W=2 2020-07-09 18:00:56 -07:00
security integrity/ima: switch to using __kernel_read 2020-07-08 08:27:57 +02:00
sound sound fixes for 5.8-rc5 2020-07-08 11:07:09 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-07-10 18:16:22 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt kvm: use more precise cast and do not drop __user 2020-07-02 05:39:31 -04:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig` 2020-07-05 16:15:46 +09:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-07-10 18:16:22 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8-rc5 2020-07-12 16:34:50 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.