Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 3 authors, 2021-03-29

Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] userfaultfd.2: Add UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID docs

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-03-23 15:17:59
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:27:34AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:08:45PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
quoted
UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID is supported since Linux 4.14.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 man2/userfaultfd.2 | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index e7dc9f813..555e37409 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ When the last file descriptor referring to a userfaultfd object is closed,
 all memory ranges that were registered with the object are unregistered
 and unread events are flushed.
 .\"
+.PP
+Since Linux 4.14, userfaultfd page fault message can selectively embed faulting
+thread ID information into the fault message.
+One needs to enable this feature explicitly using the
+.BR UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID
+feature bit when initializing the userfaultfd context.
+By default, thread ID reporting is diabled.
				     ^ disabled :)
Right! :)

I'll wait for another round of Alex's review before reposting.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu
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