From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
To: "Peter Xu" <peterx@redhat.com>,
"David Hildenbrand" <david@redhat.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Michał Mirosław" <emmir@google.com>,
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"Paul Gofman" <pgofman@codeweavers.com>,
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Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v10 2/6] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:29:11 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230202112915.867409-3-usama.anjum@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230202112915.867409-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Explain the difference created by UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC to the write
protection (UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP) mode.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
index 83f31919ebb3..4747e7bd5b26 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ former will have ``UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP`` set, the latter
you still need to supply a page when ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING`` was
used.
+If ``UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC`` is set while calling ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl, the
+behaviour of ``UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP`` changes such that faults for
+anon and shmem are resolved automatically by the kernel instead of sending
+the message to the userfaultfd. The hugetlb isn't supported. The ``pagemap``
+file can be read to find which pages have ``PM_UFFD_WP`` flag set which
+means they are write-protected.
+
QEMU/KVM
========
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-02 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-02 11:29 [PATCH v10 0/6] Implement IOCTL to get and/or the clear info about PTEs Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 1/6] userfaultfd: Add UFFD WP Async support Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-08 21:12 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-09 15:27 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-17 9:37 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-20 8:36 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2023-02-08 21:31 ` [PATCH v10 2/6] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC Peter Xu
2023-02-09 15:47 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and/or the clear info about PTEs Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-08 22:15 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-13 12:55 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-13 21:42 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-14 7:57 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-14 20:59 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-15 10:03 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-15 21:12 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-17 10:39 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
[not found] ` <Y+QgtVSEl4w2NgtJ@grain>
2023-02-13 8:19 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-17 10:10 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-20 10:38 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-20 11:38 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-20 13:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-17 15:18 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-21 10:28 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-21 12:42 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-22 10:11 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 10:44 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-22 11:06 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 11:48 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-23 6:44 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 8:41 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-23 9:23 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 9:42 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-24 2:20 ` Andrei Vagin
2023-02-25 9:38 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-19 13:52 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-20 13:24 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 19:10 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-23 7:10 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 17:11 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-27 21:18 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-27 23:09 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-28 15:55 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-28 17:21 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-28 19:31 ` Peter Xu
2023-03-01 1:59 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-20 13:26 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-21 7:02 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 4/6] tools headers UAPI: Update linux/fs.h with the kernel sources Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 5/6] mm/pagemap: add documentation of PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-09 19:26 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-13 10:44 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests: vm: add pagemap ioctl tests Muhammad Usama Anjum
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