Re: [PATCH v5 05/10] userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-02-12 22:23:24
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-02-12 22:23:24
Also in:
linux-mm, lkml
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:28:09AM -0800, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
Ah, I had added this just after VM_UFFD_WP, without noticing that this would be sharing a bit with VM_LOCKED. That seems like not such a great idea. I don't see another unused bit, and I don't see some other obvious candidate to share with. So, the solution that comes to mind is
it'd be even better if you didn't use the last unused bit for UFFD_WP. not sure how feasible that is, but you can see we're really short on bits here.