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Peter Xu
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With the more strict (but greatly simplified) page reuse logic in do_wp_page(), we can safely go back to the world where cow is not enforced with writes. This essentially reverts commit17839856fd("gup: document and work around 'COW can break either way' issue"). There are some context differences due to some changes later on around it:2170ecfa76("drm/i915: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()", 2020-06-03)376a34efa4("mm/gup: refactor and de-duplicate gup_fast() code", 2020-06-03) Some lines moved back and forth with those, but this revert patch should have striped out and covered all the enforced cow bits anyways. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.