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[v2,2/2] userfaultfd.2: Update on write-protection support

Message ID 20220603173736.62581-3-peterx@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series userfaultfd.2: Update to latest | expand

Commit Message

Peter Xu June 3, 2022, 5:37 p.m. UTC 
The shmem/hugetlbfs memory types are supported for write-protection
messages very lately.  Update the man page to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 man2/userfaultfd.2 | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index 6b9412aaf..9b5ec0358 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -270,13 +270,18 @@  Since Linux 4.11,
 userfaultfd can be also used with hugetlbfs and shared memory mappings.
 .\"
 .SS Userfaultfd write-protect mode (since 5.7)
-Since Linux 5.7, userfaultfd supports write-protect mode.
+Since Linux 5.7, userfaultfd supports write-protect mode for anonymous memory.
 The user needs to first check availability of this feature using
 .B UFFDIO_API
 ioctl against the feature bit
 .B UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP
 before using this feature.
 .PP
+Since Linux 5.19, the write-protection mode was also supported on shmem and hugetlbfs
+memory types.
+It can be detected with the feature bit
+.BR UFFD_FEATURE_WP_HUGETLBFS_SHMEM .
+.PP
 To register with userfaultfd write-protect mode, the user needs to initiate the
 .B UFFDIO_REGISTER
 ioctl with mode
@@ -327,8 +332,6 @@  ioctl, whose
 should have the flag
 .B UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP
 cleared upon the faulted page or range.
-.PP
-Write-protect mode supports only private anonymous memory.
 .\"
 .SS Userfaultfd minor fault mode (since 5.13)
 Since Linux 5.13,