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Currently we "handle" failure to allocate the SVE register storage by doing a BUG_ON() and hoping for the best. This is obviously not great and the memory allocation failure will already be loud enough without the BUG_ON(). As the comment says it is a corner case but let's try to do a bit better, remove the BUG_ON() and add code to handle the failure in the callers. For the ptrace and signal code we can return -ENOMEM gracefully however we have no real error reporting path available to us for the SVE access trap so instead generate a SIGKILL if the allocation fails there. This at least means that we won't try to soldier on and end up trying to access the nonexistant state and while it's obviously not ideal for userspace SIGKILL doesn't allow any handling so minimises the ABI impact, making it easier to improve the interface later if we come up with a better idea. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824153417.18371-1-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> |
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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.