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Many places in the kernel have a flow where userspace will create some
object and that object will need to connect to the subsystem's
mmu_notifier subscription for the duration of its lifetime.
In this case the subsystem is usually tracking multiple mm_structs and it
is difficult to keep track of what struct mmu_notifier's have been
allocated for what mm's.
Since this has been open coded in a variety of exciting ways, provide core
functionality to do this safely.
This approach uses the struct mmu_notifier_ops * as a key to determine if
the subsystem has a notifier registered on the mm or not. If there is a
registration then the existing notifier struct is returned, otherwise the
ops->alloc_notifiers() is used to create a new per-subsystem notifier for
the mm.
The destroy side incorporates an async call_srcu based destruction which
will avoid bugs in the callers such as commit
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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.