Commit f442ab50 authored by Axel Rasmussen's avatar Axel Rasmussen Committed by Andrew Morton

mm: userfaultfd: document and enable new UFFDIO_POISON feature

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-7-axelrasmussen@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAxel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8a13897f
......@@ -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
========
......
......@@ -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
......
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