[PATCH] pagemap: update documentation
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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-16 18:47:48
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Notes about recent changes. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <redacted> --- Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 3cfbbb333ea1..aab39aa7dd8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt@@ -16,12 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap: * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt) - * Bit 56 page exlusively mapped + * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2) * Bits 57-60 zero - * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon + * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5) * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present + Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs: + for unprivileged users from 4.0 till 4.2 open fails with -EPERM, starting + from from 4.2 PFN field is zeroed if user has no CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. + Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability. + If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
@@ -160,3 +165,8 @@ Other notes: Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes. + +Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is +always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes +after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for +flags unconditionally.