From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: "Axel Rasmussen" <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Adam Ruprecht <ruprecht@google.com>,
Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>,
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David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe minor fault handling
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 11:57:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb81e2b1-eb6b-0dfb-c2d6-82843d3750e7@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210204183433.1431202-10-axelrasmussen@google.com>
Hi Axel-
one typo found:
On 2/4/21 10:34 AM, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> Reword / reorganize things a little bit into "lists", so new features /
> modes / ioctls can sort of just be appended.
Good plan.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 107 ++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
> index 65eefa66c0ba..cfd3daf59d0e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
[snip]
> -
> -Once the ``userfaultfd`` has been enabled the ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` ioctl should
> -be invoked (if present in the returned ``uffdio_api.ioctls`` bitmask) to
> -register a memory range in the ``userfaultfd`` by setting the
> +events, except page fault notifications, may be generated:
> +
> +- The ``UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_*`` flags indicate that various other events
> + other than page faults are supported. These events are described in more
> + detail below in the `Non-cooperative userfaultfd`_ section.
> +
> +- ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS`` and ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM``
> + indicate that the kernel supports ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING``
> + registrations for hugetlbfs and shared memory (covering all shmem APIs,
> + i.e. tmpfs, ``IPCSHM``, ``/dev/zero``, ``MAP_SHARED``, ``memfd_create``,
> + etc) virtual memory areas, respectively.
> +
> +- ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS`` indicates that the kernel supports
> + ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MINOR`` registration for hugetlbfs virtual memory
> + areas.
> +
> +The userland application should set the feature flags it intends to use
(ah, userspace has moved to userland temporarily. :)
> +when envoking the ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl, to request that those features be
invoking
> +enabled if supported.
thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-04 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-04 18:34 [PATCH v4 00/10] userfaultfd: add minor fault handling Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] hugetlb: Pass vma into huge_pte_alloc() and huge_pmd_share() Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-05 1:04 ` kernel test robot
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Forbid huge pmd sharing when uffd enabled Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] mm/hugetlb: Move flush_hugetlb_tlb_range() into hugetlb.h Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Unshare all pmds for hugetlbfs when register wp Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-09 0:00 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] userfaultfd: disable huge PMD sharing for MINOR registered VMAs Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: only compile UFFD helpers if config enabled Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-08 23:54 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-10 18:00 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-10 19:06 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe minor fault handling Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 19:57 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-02-04 21:04 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 21:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-02-04 18:34 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] userfaultfd/selftests: add test exercising " Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-04 18:38 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] userfaultfd: add " Axel Rasmussen
2021-02-09 0:03 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-09 0:19 ` Axel Rasmussen
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