userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:43:58 +0000 (15:43 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:41:29 +0000 (16:41 -0800)
commit47dd924508f5fb10480afc69de04539fa3d14034
treed4d1492dbdb7681c0270777693e0522d3702b77e
parentcb658a453b9327ce96ce5222c24d162b5b65b564
userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM

Userland developers asked to be notified immediately by the UFFDIO_API
ioctl if shmem missing mode is supported by userfaultfd in the running
kernel.  This avoids the need to run UFFDIO_REGISTER on a shmem virtual
memory range to find out.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161216144821.5183-38-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Michael Rapoport <RAPOPORT@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h