From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Rapoport Subject: [PATCH man-pages 3/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: add BUGS section Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 08:43:17 +0300 Message-ID: <1493617399-20897-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1493617399-20897-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1493617399-20897-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org The features handshake is not quite convenient. Elaborate about it in the BUGS section. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport --- man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 index e12b9de..50316de 100644 --- a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 +++ b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 @@ -650,6 +650,15 @@ operations are Linux-specific. .SH EXAMPLE See .BR userfaultfd (2). +.SH BUGS +In order to detect available userfault features and +enable certain subset of those features +the usefault file descriptor must be closed after the first +.BR UFFDIO_API +operation that queries features availability and re-opened before +the second +.BR UFFDIO_API +call that actually enables the desired features. .SH SEE ALSO .BR ioctl (2), .BR mmap (2), -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org