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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs
Date: Mon,  5 Apr 2021 15:13:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210405131307.2892-3-alx.manpages@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210405131307.2892-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com>

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID is supported since Linux 4.14.

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
[alx: srcfix]
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/userfaultfd.2 | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index fa1b6514f..8245253c3 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ When the last file descriptor referring to a userfaultfd object is closed,
 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.
+One needs to enable this feature explicitly using the
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID
+feature bit when initializing the userfaultfd context.
+By default, thread ID reporting is disabled.
 .SS Usage
 The userfaultfd mechanism is designed to allow a thread in a multithreaded
 program to perform user-space paging for the other threads in the process.
@@ -229,6 +236,9 @@ struct uffd_msg {
         struct {
             __u64 flags;    /* Flags describing fault */
             __u64 address;  /* Faulting address */
+            union {
+                __u32 ptid; /* Thread ID of the fault */
+            } feat;
         } pagefault;
 
         struct {            /* Since Linux 4.11 */
@@ -358,6 +368,9 @@ otherwise it is a read fault.
 .\" UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP is not yet supported.
 .RE
 .TP
+.I pagefault.feat.pid
+The thread ID that triggered the page fault.
+.TP
 .I fork.ufd
 The file descriptor associated with the userfault object
 created for the child created by
-- 
2.31.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-05 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-05 13:13 [PATCH 0/5] Merged patches from others Alejandro Colomar
2021-04-05 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/5] scanf.3: clarify that %n supports type modifiers Alejandro Colomar
2021-04-05 19:48   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-05 13:13 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2021-04-05 19:56   ` [PATCH 2/5] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-05 20:01     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-05 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] userfaultfd.2: Add write-protect mode Alejandro Colomar
2021-04-05 21:13   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-06 16:36     ` Peter Xu
2021-04-05 13:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs Alejandro Colomar
2021-04-05 21:13   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-05 13:13 ` [PATCH 5/5] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Add write-protect mode docs Alejandro Colomar
2021-04-05 21:14   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-04-06  8:10 ` [PATCH 0/5] Merged patches from others Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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