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We skip filling out the pt with scratch entries if the va range covers the entire pt, since we later have to fill it with the PTEs for the object pages anyway. However this might leave open a small window where the PTEs don't point to anything valid for the HW to consume. When for example using 2M GTT pages this fill_px() showed up as being quite significant in perf measurements, and ends up being completely wasted since we ignore the pt and just use the pde directly. Anyway, currently we have our PTE construction split between alloc and insert, which is probably slightly iffy nowadays, since the alloc doesn't actually allocate anything anymore, instead it just sets up the page directories and points the PTEs at the scratch page. Later when we do the insert step we re-program the PTEs again. Better might be to squash the alloc and insert into a single step, then bringing back this optimisation(along with some others) should be possible. Fixes: |
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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.