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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2017-02-22 15:43:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -0800 |
| commit | 47dd924508f5fb10480afc69de04539fa3d14034 (patch) | |
| tree | d4d1492dbdb7681c0270777693e0522d3702b77e | |
| parent | cb658a453b9327ce96ce5222c24d162b5b65b564 (diff) | |
| download | linux-47dd924508f5fb10480afc69de04539fa3d14034.tar.bz2 | |
userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM
Userland developers asked to be notified immediately by the UFFDIO_API
ioctl if shmem missing mode is supported by userfaultfd in the running
kernel. This avoids the need to run UFFDIO_REGISTER on a shmem virtual
memory range to find out.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161216144821.5183-38-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Michael Rapoport <RAPOPORT@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h index 10631a4cdb24..9ac4b68c54d1 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ #define UFFD_API_FEATURES (UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK | \ UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP | \ UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED | \ - UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS) + UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS | \ + UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM) #define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \ ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \ @@ -146,12 +147,17 @@ struct uffdio_api { * it, so userland can later check if the feature flag is * present in uffdio_api.features after UFFDIO_API * succeeded. + * + * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM works the same as + * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS, but it applies to shmem + * (i.e. tmpfs and other shmem based APIs). */ #define UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP (1<<0) #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK (1<<1) #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP (1<<2) #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED (1<<3) #define UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS (1<<4) +#define UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM (1<<5) __u64 features; __u64 ioctls; |