Re: [PATCH 2/5] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

> Thanks. I've applied the patch, but I made a few tweaks afterwards,
> as per the patch below. Notably, I changed "message" to
> "notification", since that seems more consistent with the
> language in the rest of the page. Is it okay, Peter?

Hmmm -- ignore this. For now, I reverted the patch below,
since it causes the following patch to break.

Cheers,

Michael

> diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> index 8245253c3..eb2c6d5f9 100644
> --- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
> +++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> @@ -78,8 +78,10 @@ all memory ranges that were registered with the object are unregistered
>  and unread events are flushed.
>  .\"
>  .PP
> -Since Linux 4.14, userfaultfd page fault message can selectively embed
> -faulting thread ID information into the fault message.
> +Since Linux 4.14,
> +.\" commit 9d4ac934829ac58c5109c49e6dfe677300e5e652
> +a userfaultfd page fault notification can selectively embed the
> +faulting thread ID information in the notification.
>  One needs to enable this feature explicitly using the
>  .B UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID
>  feature bit when initializing the userfaultfd context.
> 
> 


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