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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>