Userfaultfd feature UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS was merged recently and should
be available in Linux 4.14 release. This patch is for the manpage
changes documenting this API.
Documents the following commit:
commit 2d6d6f5a09a96cc1fec7ed992b825e05f64cb50e
Author: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 6 16:23:39 2017 -0700
mm: userfaultfd: add feature to request for a signal delivery
Signed-off-by: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Incorporated review feedback changes.
---
man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 | 9 +++++++++
man2/userfaultfd.2 | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2 b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
index 60fd29b..32f0744 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_userfaultfd.2
@@ -196,6 +196,15 @@ with the
flag set,
.BR memfd_create (2),
and so on.
+.TP
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
+Since Linux 4.14, If this feature bit is set, no page-fault events
+.B (UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT)
+will be delivered, instead a
+.B SIGBUS
+signal will be sent to the faulting process. Applications using this
+feature will not require the use of a userfaultfd monitor for processing
+memory accesses to the regions registered with userfaultfd.
.IP
The returned
.I ioctls
diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
index 1741ee3..3c5b9c0 100644
--- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
+++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
@@ -172,6 +172,29 @@ or
.BR ioctl (2)
operations to resolve the page fault.
.PP
+Starting from Linux 4.14, if application sets
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
+feature bit using
+.B UFFDIO_API
+.BR ioctl (2),
+no page fault notification will be forwarded to
+the user-space, instead a
+.B SIGBUS
+signal is delivered to the faulting process. With this feature,
+userfaultfd can be used for robustness purpose to simply catch
+any access to areas within the registered address range that do not
+have pages allocated, without having to listen to userfaultfd events.
+No userfaultfd monitor will be required for dealing with such memory
+accesses. For example, this feature can be useful for applications that
+want to prevent the kernel from automatically allocating pages and filling
+holes in sparse files when the hole is accessed thru mapped address.
+.PP
+The
+.B UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
+feature is implicitly inherited through fork() if used in combination with
+.BR UFFD_FEATURE_FORK .
+
+.PP
Details of the various
.BR ioctl (2)
operations can be found in
--
2.7.4
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