Samuel Holland
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Supm is a virtual ISA extension defined in the RISC-V Pointer Masking specification, which indicates that pointer masking is available in U-mode. It can be provided by either Smnpm or Ssnpm, depending on which mode the kernel runs in. Userspace should not care about this distinction, so export Supm instead of either underlying extension. Hide the extension if the kernel was compiled without support for the pointer masking prctl() interface. Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016202814.4061541-9-samuel.holland@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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 reStructuredText 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.