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. Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 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 ======== diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h index b5f07eacc697..62151706c5a3 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM | \ UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS | \ UFFD_FEATURE_WP_HUGETLBFS_SHMEM | \ - UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED) + UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED | \ + UFFD_FEATURE_POISON) #define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \ ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \ @@ -49,12 +50,14 @@ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_COPY | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT | \ - (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_CONTINUE) + (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_CONTINUE | \ + (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_POISON) #define UFFD_API_RANGE_IOCTLS_BASIC \ ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_WAKE | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_COPY | \ + (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT | \ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_CONTINUE | \ - (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT) + (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_POISON) /* * Valid ioctl command number range with this API is from 0x00 to -- 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog
