Re: [PATCHSET v4 0/5] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Andrew Morton
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:37:34 +0300 Konstantin Khlebnikov [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This patchset makes pagemap useable again in the safe way (after row hammer
bug it was made CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only). This patchset restores access for
non-privileged users but hides PFNs from them.

Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt hasn't been updated to describe these
privilege issues?

Will do. Too much time passed between versions, I planned but forgot about that.

quoted

Also it adds bit 'map-exlusive' which is set if page is mapped only here:
it helps in estimation of working set without exposing pfns and allows to
distinguish CoWed and non-CoWed private anonymous pages.

Second patch removes page-shift bits and completes migration to the new
pagemap format: flags soft-dirty and mmap-exlusive are available only
in the new format.

I'm not really seeing a description of the new format in these
changelogs.  Precisely what got removed, what got added and which
capabilities change the output in what manner?

Now pfn (bits 0-54) is zero if task who opened pagemap has no
CAP_SYS_ADMIN (system-wide).

in v2 format page-shift (bits 55-60) now used for flags:
55 - soft-dirty (added for checkpoint-restore, I guess)
56 - mmap-exclusive (added in last patch)
57-60 - free for use

I'll document the history of these changes.

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