From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Rapoport Subject: Re: [PATCH] New page describing userfaultfd(2) system call. Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 09:02:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20161229070233.GA9996@rapoport-lnx> References: <1482307713-21853-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20161227112038.GD16976@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161227112038.GD16976-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 12:20:38PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > Thanks for working on this page. Just for background (since it helps > > me fore review), how did you get the info that is documented in the > > page? > > Mike maintained and contributed to the non-cooperative support of > userfaultfd (not documented yet in the manpage because not upstream > yet) and he also wrote from scratch the shmem support of userfaultfd > (also still queued for upstream merging). So I assume all information > in the manpage has been obtained by reading the kernel code of > userfaultfd. Andrea, thanks for the nice summary :) I'm working on post-copy migration in CRIU, so except reading the kernel code, a had quite a few chances to experiment with userfaultfd :) > Thanks, > Andrea > -- Sincerely yours, Mike. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html