Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2017-10-08

Re: [PATCH] Userfaultfd: Add description for UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS

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From: Mike Rapoport <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-08 06:05:26
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Hello Prakash,

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:52:20PM -0700, Prakash Sangappa wrote:
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Userfaultfd feature UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS was merged recently and should
be available in Linux 4.14 release. This patch is for the manpage
changes documenting this API.

Documents the following commit:

commit 2d6d6f5a09a96cc1fec7ed992b825e05f64cb50e
Author: Prakash Sangappa [off-list ref]
Date: Wed Sep 6 16:23:39 2017 -0700

    mm: userfaultfd: add feature to request for a signal delivery

Signed-off-by: Prakash Sangappa <redacted>
---
 man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 |  9 +++++++++
 man2/userfaultfd.2       | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
index 60fd29b..cfc65ae 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
@@ -196,6 +196,15 @@ with the
 flag set,
 .BR memfd_create (2),
 and so on.
+.TP
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
+Since Linux 4.14, If this feature bit is set, no page-fault events(
+.B UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT
+) will be delivered, instead a
+.B SIGBUS
+signal will be sent to the faulting process. Applications using this
+feature will not require the use of a userfaultfd monitor for handling
+page-fault events.
This sounds to me a bit misleading: "no page-fault events" and "handling
page-fault events"
Maybe "processing memory accesses to the regions registered with
userfaultfd"?
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 .IP
 The returned
 .I ioctls
diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index 1741ee3..a033742 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -172,6 +172,23 @@ or
 .BR ioctl (2)
 operations to resolve the page fault.
 .PP
+Starting from Linux 4.14, if application sets
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
+feature bit using
+.B UFFDIO_API
+.BR ioctl (2)
+, no page fault notification will be forwarded to
+the user-space, instead a
+.B SIGBUS
+signal is delivered to the faulting process. With this feature,
+userfaultfd can be used for robustness purpose to simply catch
+any access to areas within the registered address range that do not
+have pages allocated, without having to deal with page-fault events.
+No userfaultd monitor will be required for handling page faults. For
Since we do not get page fault events, maybe better would be to say
"dealing with such memory accesses" or something like that.
+example, this feature can be useful for applications that want to
+prevent the kernel from automatically allocating pages and filling
+holes in sparse files when the hole is accessed thru mapped address.
+.PP
 Details of the various
 .BR ioctl (2)
 operations can be found in
-- 
2.7.4
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

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