Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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Accesses by userspace to random addresses outside the user or kernel address range will generate an SLB fault. When we handle that fault we classify the effective address into several classes, eg. user, kernel linear, kernel virtual etc. For addresses that are completely outside of any valid range, we should not insert an SLB entry at all, and instead immediately an exception. In the past this was handled in two ways. Firstly we would check the top nibble of the address (using REGION_ID(ea)) and that would tell us if the address was user (0), kernel linear (c), kernel virtual (d), or vmemmap (f). If the address didn't match any of these it was invalid. Then for each type of address we would do a secondary check. For the user region we check against H_PGTABLE_RANGE, for kernel linear we would mask the top nibble of the address and then check the address against MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. As part of commit |
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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.