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| author | Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> | 2023-07-07 14:55:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-08-18 10:12:17 -0700 |
| commit | f442ab50f5fb581804e4c4b6f8ead394fe975589 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fbefcb1bf7c80879f7bd9499efd7b3718e4c8e4 /Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | |
| parent | 8a13897fb0daa8f56821f263f0c63661e1c6acae (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f442ab50f5fb581804e4c4b6f8ead394fe975589.tar.gz lwn-f442ab50f5fb581804e4c4b6f8ead394fe975589.zip | |
mm: userfaultfd: document and enable new UFFDIO_POISON feature
Update the userfaultfd API to advertise this feature as part of feature
flags and supported ioctls (returned upon registration).
Add basic documentation describing the new feature.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-7-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 7c304e432205..4349a8c2b978 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst @@ -244,6 +244,21 @@ write-protected (so future writes will also result in a WP fault). These ioctls support a mode flag (``UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP`` or ``UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP`` respectively) to configure the mapping this way. +Memory Poisioning Emulation +--------------------------- + +In response to a fault (either missing or minor), an action userspace can +take to "resolve" it is to issue a ``UFFDIO_POISON``. This will cause any +future faulters to either get a SIGBUS, or in KVM's case the guest will +receive an MCE as if there were hardware memory poisoning. + +This is used to emulate hardware memory poisoning. Imagine a VM running on a +machine which experiences a real hardware memory error. Later, we live migrate +the VM to another physical machine. Since we want the migration to be +transparent to the guest, we want that same address range to act as if it was +still poisoned, even though it's on a new physical host which ostensibly +doesn't have a memory error in the exact same spot. + QEMU/KVM ======== |