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* [PATCH man-pages] madvise.2: add MADV_GUARD_INSTALL, MADV_GUARD_REMOVE description
@ 2024-11-29  9:32 Lorenzo Stoakes
  2024-11-29 12:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Stoakes @ 2024-11-29  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alejandro Colomar
  Cc: linux-man, Suren Baghdasaryan, Liam R . Howlett, Matthew Wilcox,
	Vlastimil Babka, Jann Horn, linux-mm

Lightweight guard region support has been added to Linux 6.13, which adds
MADV_GUARD_INSTALL and MADV_GUARD_REMOVE flags to the madvise() system
call. Therefore, update the manpage for madvise() and describe these
operations.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
---
 man/man2/madvise.2 | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man2/madvise.2 b/man/man2/madvise.2
index 4f2210ee2..e539fefe4 100644
--- a/man/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man/man2/madvise.2
@@ -676,6 +676,79 @@ or secret memory regions created using
 Note that with
 .BR MADV_POPULATE_WRITE ,
 the process can be killed at any moment when the system runs out of memory.
+.TP
+.BR MADV_GUARD_INSTALL " (since Linux 6.13)"
+Install a lightweight guard region into the range specified by
+.I addr
+and
+.IR size ,
+causing any read or write in the range to result in a fatal
+.B SIGSEGV
+signal being raised.
+.IP
+If the region maps memory pages they will be cleared as part of the operation,
+though if
+.B MADV_GUARD_INSTALL
+is applied to regions containing pre-existing lightweight guard regions, they
+are left in place.
+.IP
+This operation is only supported for writable anonymous private mappings which
+have not been mlock'd. An
+.B EINVAL
+error is returned if it is attempted on any other kind of mapping.
+.IP
+This operation is more efficient than mapping a new region of memory
+.BR PROT_NONE ,
+as it does not require the establishment of new mappings, instead regions of an
+existing mapping simply have their page tables manipulated to establish the
+desired behavior. No additional memory is used.
+.IP
+Lightweight guard regions remain on fork (except for any parts which have had
+.B MADV_WIPEONFORK
+applied to them), and are not removed by
+.BR MADV_DONTNEED ,
+.BR MADV_FREE ,
+.BR MADV_PAGEOUT ,
+or
+.BR MADV_COLD .
+.IP
+Attempting to
+.B mlock()
+lightweight guard regions will fail, as will
+.B MADV_POPULATE_READ
+or
+.BR MADV_POPULATE_WRITE .
+.IP
+If the mapping has its attributes changed, or is split or partially unmapped,
+any existing guard regions remain in place (except if any are unmapped).
+.IP
+If a mapping is moved using
+.BR mremap() ,
+lightweight guard regions are moved with it.
+.IP
+Lightweight guard regions are removed when unmapped, on process teardown, or
+when the
+.B MADV_GUARD_REMOVE
+operation is applied to them.
+.TP
+.BR MADV_GUARD_REMOVE " (since Linux 6.13)"
+Remove any lightweight guard regions which exist in the range specified by
+.I addr
+and
+.IR size .
+.IP
+All mappings in the range other than lightweight guard regions are left in place
+(including mlock'd mappings). The operation is, however, only valid for writable
+anonymous private mappings, returning an
+.B EINVAL
+error otherwise.
+.IP
+When lightweight guard regions are removed, they act as empty regions of the
+containing mapping. Since only writable anonymous private mappings are
+supported, they therefore become zero-fill-on-demand pages.
+.IP
+If any transparent huge pages are encountered in the operation, they are left in
+place.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR madvise ()
@@ -787,6 +860,14 @@ or
 or secret memory regions created using
 .BR memfd_secret(2) .
 .TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I advice
+is
+.B MADV_GUARD_INSTALL
+or
+.BR MADV_GUARD_REMOVE ,
+but the specified address range contains an unsupported mapping.
+.TP
 .B EIO
 (for
 .BR MADV_WILLNEED )
-- 
2.47.1



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