From: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: document new UFFDIO_POISON ioctl
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:02:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230919190206.388896-11-axelrasmussen@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230919190206.388896-1-axelrasmussen@google.com>
This is a new feature recently added to the kernel. So, document the new
ioctl the same way we do other UFFDIO_* ioctls.
Also note the corresponding new ioctl flag we can return in reponse to a
UFFDIO_REGISTER call.
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
---
man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 112 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
index afe3caffc..1282f63e1 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ operation is supported.
The
.B UFFDIO_CONTINUE
operation is supported.
+.TP
+.B 1 << _UFFDIO_POISON
+The
+.B UFFDIO_POISON
+operation is supported.
.PP
This
.BR ioctl (2)
@@ -916,6 +921,113 @@ The faulting process has exited at the time of a
.B UFFDIO_CONTINUE
operation.
.\"
+.SS UFFDIO_POISON
+(Since Linux 6.6.)
+Mark an address range as "poisoned".
+Future accesses to these addresses will raise a
+.B SIGBUS
+signal.
+Unlike
+.B MADV_HWPOISON
+this works by installing page table entries,
+rather than "really" poisoning the underlying physical pages.
+This means it only affects this particular address space.
+.PP
+The
+.I argp
+argument is a pointer to a
+.I uffdio_continue
+structure as shown below:
+.PP
+.in +4n
+.EX
+struct uffdio_poison {
+ struct uffdio_range range;
+ /* Range to install poison PTE markers in */
+ __u64 mode; /* Flags controlling the behavior of poison */
+ __s64 updated; /* Number of bytes poisoned, or negated error */
+};
+.EE
+.in
+.PP
+The following value may be bitwise ORed in
+.I mode
+to change the behavior of the
+.B UFFDIO_POISON
+operation:
+.TP
+.B UFFDIO_POISON_MODE_DONTWAKE
+Do not wake up the thread that waits for page-fault resolution.
+.PP
+The
+.I updated
+field is used by the kernel
+to return the number of bytes that were actually poisoned,
+or an error in the same manner as
+.BR UFFDIO_COPY .
+If the value returned in the
+.I updated
+field doesn't match the value that was specified in
+.IR range.len ,
+the operation fails with the error
+.BR EAGAIN .
+The
+.I updated
+field is output-only;
+it is not read by the
+.B UFFDIO_POISON
+operation.
+.PP
+This
+.BR ioctl (2)
+operation returns 0 on success.
+In this case,
+the entire area was poisoned.
+On error, \-1 is returned and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+Possible errors include:
+.TP
+.B EAGAIN
+The number of bytes mapped
+(i.e., the value returned in the
+.I updated
+field)
+does not equal the value that was specified in the
+.I range.len
+field.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+Either
+.I range.start
+or
+.I range.len
+was not a multiple of the system page size; or
+.I range.len
+was zero; or the range specified was invalid.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+An invalid bit was specified in the
+.I mode
+field.
+.TP
+.B EEXIST
+One or more pages were already mapped in the given range.
+.TP
+.B ENOENT
+The faulting process has changed its virtual memory layout simultaneously with
+an outstanding
+.B UFFDIO_POISON
+operation.
+.TP
+.B ENOMEM
+Allocating memory for page table entries failed.
+.TP
+.B ESRCH
+The faulting process has exited at the time of a
+.B UFFDIO_POISON
+operation.
+.\"
.SH RETURN VALUE
See descriptions of the individual operations, above.
.SH ERRORS
--
2.42.0.459.ge4e396fd5e-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-19 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20230919190206.388896-1-axelrasmussen@google.com>
2023-09-19 19:01 ` [PATCH 01/10] userfaultfd.2: briefly mention two-step feature handshake process Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:26 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:38 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-09-19 19:01 ` [PATCH 02/10] userfaultfd.2: reword to account for new fault resolution ioctls Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:29 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-09-19 19:01 ` [PATCH 03/10] userfaultfd.2: comment on feature detection in the example program Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:40 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-09-19 19:02 ` [PATCH 05/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: describe two-step feature handshake Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:44 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:42 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-10-09 10:58 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-09-19 19:02 ` [PATCH 06/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: describe missing UFFDIO_API feature flags Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:50 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:45 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-10-09 10:49 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-09-19 19:02 ` [PATCH 07/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: correct and update UFFDIO_API ioctl error codes Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:52 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-09 8:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-10-09 11:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-09-19 19:02 ` [PATCH 08/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: clarify the state of the uffdio_api structure on error Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-25 23:56 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-09-26 17:58 ` Axel Rasmussen
2023-10-09 9:03 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-09-19 19:02 ` [PATCH 09/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: fix / update UFFDIO_REGISTER error code list Axel Rasmussen
2023-09-19 19:02 ` Axel Rasmussen [this message]
2023-10-09 9:09 ` [PATCH 10/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: document new UFFDIO_POISON ioctl Mike Rapoport
2023-10-10 17:13 ` Axel Rasmussen
[not found] ` <20230919190206.388896-5-axelrasmussen@google.com>
2023-09-25 23:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] ioctl_userfaultfd.2: fix a few trivial mistakes Alejandro Colomar
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