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.
Thomas Gleixner
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The LPM trie map cannot be used in contexts like perf, kprobes and tracing as this map type dynamically allocates memory. The memory allocation happens with a raw spinlock held which is a truly spinning lock on a PREEMPT RT enabled kernel which disables preemption and interrupts. As RT does not allow memory allocation from such a section for various reasons, convert the raw spinlock to a regular spinlock. On a RT enabled kernel these locks are substituted by 'sleeping' spinlocks which provide the proper protection but keep the code preemptible. On a non-RT kernel regular spinlocks map to raw spinlocks, i.e. this does not cause any functional change. Signed-off-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145644.602129531@linutronix.de
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