Re: userfaultfd: usability issue due to lack of UFFD events ordering

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 02:39:01PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2022, at 10:47 AM, Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:41:05PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> 
> As for me, I decided that due to the lack of ordering, I just
> cannot use the UFFD events, and I have to rely on ptrace to obtain
> order of these events. I might be wrong, but any solution is not
> trivial and is likely to require API changes.

I think you are right and any solution that will allow userspace to track
the order of all events (page faults and address space changes) will
require API changes. 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.




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