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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	peterx@redhat.com, Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs
Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2021 20:59:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210304015947.517713-2-peterx@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210304015947.517713-1-peterx@redhat.com>

UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID is supported since Linux 4.14.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 man2/userfaultfd.2 | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index e7dc9f813..2d14effc6 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ 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 fault
+thread ID information into the fault message.  One needs to enable this feature
+explicitly using the
+.BR UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID
+feature bit when initializing the userfaultfd context, otherwise 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 +235,9 @@ 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 +367,9 @@ 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
-- 
2.26.2


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04  1:59 [PATCH 0/4] man2: udpate mm/userfaultfd manpages to latest Peter Xu
2021-03-04  1:59 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-03-04  6:38   ` [PATCH 1/4] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs Mike Rapoport
2021-03-04 15:53     ` Peter Xu
2021-03-04  9:22   ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-04 15:50     ` Peter Xu
2021-03-04 18:13       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-04  1:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] userfaultfd.2: Add write-protect mode Peter Xu
2021-03-04  6:46   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-04 16:02     ` Peter Xu
2021-03-04  1:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs Peter Xu
2021-03-04  1:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Add write-protect mode docs Peter Xu
2021-03-04 16:12   ` Peter Xu

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