From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov-XoJtRXgx1JseBXzfvpsJ4g@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org,
Andrew Morton
<akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi
<n-horiguchi-PaJj6Psr51x8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH] pagemap: update documentation
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:47:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150716184742.8858.14639.stgit@buzz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150714152516.29844.69929.stgit@buzz>
Notes about recent changes.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov-XoJtRXgx1JseBXzfvpsJ4g@public.gmane.org>
---
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 3cfbbb333ea1..aab39aa7dd8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -16,12 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
- * Bit 56 page exlusively mapped
+ * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
* Bits 57-60 zero
- * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon
+ * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
* Bit 62 page swapped
* Bit 63 page present
+ Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs:
+ for unprivileged users from 4.0 till 4.2 open fails with -EPERM, starting
+ from from 4.2 PFN field is zeroed if user has no CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
+ Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability.
+
If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an
encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the
swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
@@ -160,3 +165,8 @@ Other notes:
Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
+
+Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is
+always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes
+after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for
+flags unconditionally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-14 15:37 [PATCHSET v4 0/5] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-14 15:37 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] pagemap: check permissions and capabilities at open time Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-21 8:06 ` Naoya Horiguchi
[not found] ` <20150721080626.GB4490-CFvn+FByjrC01j0XV7yAGhjPlmGC1jup6qtp775pBPw@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-24 18:16 ` Mark Williamson
2015-07-14 15:37 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] pagemap: switch to the new format and do some cleanup Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-21 7:44 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-14 15:37 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] pagemap: rework hugetlb and thp report Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-19 11:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-07-21 8:00 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-21 8:43 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
[not found] ` <CALYGNiO9wpmnrqbKhRKvfHgnUC854accifKc3m6Bvqsv0LHqXQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-24 18:17 ` Mark Williamson
2015-07-24 18:19 ` Mark Williamson
2015-07-14 15:37 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-21 8:11 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-21 8:39 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-24 18:18 ` Mark Williamson
2015-07-14 15:37 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-21 8:17 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-24 18:18 ` Mark Williamson
2015-07-14 18:52 ` [PATCHSET v4 0/5] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20150714115252.8f21cfa864935a4b403c3d8d-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-14 20:15 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2015-07-16 18:47 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov [this message]
2015-07-21 8:35 ` [PATCH] pagemap: update documentation Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-24 17:34 ` [PATCHSET v4 0/5] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users Mark Williamson
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20150716184742.8858.14639.stgit@buzz \
--to=khlebnikov-xojtrxgx1jsebxzfvpsj4g@public.gmane.org \
--cc=akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org \
--cc=linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org \
--cc=linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org \
--cc=linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org \
--cc=n-horiguchi-PaJj6Psr51x8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).