lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Apr]   [27]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH man-pages 2/2] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: start adding details about userfaultfd features
From
Date
On 04/27/2017 04:14 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, Mike. Applied, and lightly edited.

All changes now pushed to Git.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
> man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
> index 42bf7a7..cdc07e0 100644
> --- a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
> +++ b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
> @@ -121,22 +121,70 @@ and explicitly enable userfaultfd features that are disabled by default.
> The kernel always reports all the available features in the
> .I features
> field.
> +
> +To enable userfaultfd features the application should set
> +a bit corresponding to each feature it wants to enable in the
> +.I features
> +field.
> +If the kernel supports all the requested features it will enable them.
> +Otherwise it will zero out the returned
> +.I uffdio_api
> +structure and return
> +.BR EINVAL .
> .\" FIXME add more details about feature negotiation and enablement
>
> Since Linux 4.11, the following feature bits may be set:
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK
> +When this feature is enabled,
> +the userfaultfd objects associated with a parent process are duplicated
> +into the child process during
> +.BR fork (2)
> +system call and the
> +.I UFFD_EVENT_FORK
> +is delivered to the userfaultfd monitor
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP
> +If this feature is enabled,
> +when the faulting process invokes
> +.BR mremap (2)
> +system call
> +the userfaultfd monitor will receive an event of type
> +.I UFFD_EVENT_REMAP.
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE
> +If this feature is enabled,
> +when the faulting process calls
> +.BR madvise(2)
> +system call with
> +.I MADV_DONTNEED
> +or
> +.I MADV_REMOVE
> +advice to free a virtual memory area
> +the userfaultfd monitor will receive an event of type
> +.I UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE.
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP
> +If this feature is enabled,
> +when the faulting process unmaps virtual memory either explicitly with
> +.BR munmap (2)
> +system call, or implicitly either during
> +.BR mmap (2)
> +or
> +.BR mremap (2)
> +system call,
> +the userfaultfd monitor will receive an event of type
> +.I UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS
> +If this feature bit is set,
> +the kernel supports registering userfaultfd ranges on hugetlbfs
> +virtual memory areas
> .TP
> .B UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM
> -.\" FIXME add feature description
> +If this feature bit is set,
> +the kernel supports registering userfaultfd ranges on tmpfs
> +virtual memory areas
>
> The returned
> .I ioctls
> @@ -182,7 +230,8 @@ The API version requested in the
> .I api
> field is not supported by this kernel, or the
> .I features
> -field was not zero.
> +field passed to the kernel includes feature bits that are not supported
> +by the current kernel version.
> .\" FIXME In the above error case, the returned 'uffdio_api' structure is
> .\" zeroed out. Why is this done? This should be explained in the manual page.
> .\"
>


--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-04-27 19:27    [W:0.072 / U:0.436 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site