From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
To: "Peter Xu" <peterx@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v10 5/6] mm/pagemap: add documentation of PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:29:14 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230202112915.867409-6-usama.anjum@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230202112915.867409-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Add some explanation and method to use write-protection and written-to
on memory range.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
index 6e2e416af783..1cb2189e9a0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
@@ -230,3 +230,27 @@ 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.
+
+Pagemap Scan IOCTL
+==================
+
+The ``PAGEMAP_SCAN`` IOCTL on the pagemap file can be used to get and/or clear
+the info about page table entries. The following operations are supported in
+this IOCTL:
+- Get the information if the pages have been written-to (``PAGE_IS_WRITTEN``),
+ file mapped (``PAGE_IS_FILE``), present (``PAGE_IS_PRESENT``) or swapped
+ (``PAGE_IS_SWAPPED``).
+- Write-protect the pages (``PAGEMAP_WP_ENGAGE``) to start finding which
+ pages have been written-to.
+- Find pages which have been written-to and write protect the pages
+ (atomic ``PAGE_IS_WRITTEN + PAGEMAP_WP_ENGAGE``)
+
+To get information about which pages have been written-to and/or write protect
+the pages, following must be performed first in order:
+ 1. The userfaultfd file descriptor is created with ``userfaultfd`` syscall.
+ 2. The ``UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC`` feature is set by ``UFFDIO_API`` IOCTL.
+ 3. The memory range is registered with ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP`` mode
+ through ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` IOCTL.
+Then the any part of the registered memory or the whole memory region can be
+write protected using the ``UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT`` IOCTL or ``PAGEMAP_SCAN``
+IOCTL.
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-02 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-02 11:29 [PATCH v10 0/6] Implement IOCTL to get and/or the clear info about PTEs Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 1/6] userfaultfd: Add UFFD WP Async support Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-08 21:12 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-09 15:27 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-17 9:37 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-20 8:36 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 2/6] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-08 21:31 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-09 15:47 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and/or the clear info about PTEs Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-08 22:15 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-13 12:55 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-13 21:42 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-14 7:57 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-14 20:59 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-15 10:03 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-15 21:12 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-17 10:39 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
[not found] ` <Y+QgtVSEl4w2NgtJ@grain>
2023-02-13 8:19 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-17 10:10 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-20 10:38 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-20 11:38 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-20 13:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-17 15:18 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-21 10:28 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-21 12:42 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-22 10:11 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 10:44 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-22 11:06 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 11:48 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-23 6:44 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 8:41 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-23 9:23 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 9:42 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-24 2:20 ` Andrei Vagin
2023-02-25 9:38 ` Michał Mirosław
2023-02-19 13:52 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-20 13:24 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-22 19:10 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-23 7:10 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-23 17:11 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-27 21:18 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-27 23:09 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-28 15:55 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-28 17:21 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-28 19:31 ` Peter Xu
2023-03-01 1:59 ` Nadav Amit
2023-02-20 13:26 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-02-21 7:02 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 4/6] tools headers UAPI: Update linux/fs.h with the kernel sources Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2023-02-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v10 5/6] mm/pagemap: add documentation of PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL Peter Xu
2023-02-13 10:44 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-02-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests: vm: add pagemap ioctl tests Muhammad Usama Anjum
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