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From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
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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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-02 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ 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
2023-02-08 22:22   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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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