include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h

File Facts

System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
Extension
.h
Size
12002 bytes
Lines
387
Domain
Core OS
Bucket
Core Kernel Interface
Inferred role
Core OS: implementation source
Status
source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Core operating-system implementation surface: boot, tasks, memory, VFS, syscall-facing interfaces, synchronization, credentials, and isolation.

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Annotated Snippet

struct uffd_msg {
	__u8	event;

	__u8	reserved1;
	__u16	reserved2;
	__u32	reserved3;

	union {
		struct {
			__u64	flags;
			__u64	address;
			union {
				__u32 ptid;
			} feat;
		} pagefault;

		struct {
			__u32	ufd;
		} fork;

		struct {
			__u64	from;
			__u64	to;
			__u64	len;
		} remap;

		struct {
			__u64	start;
			__u64	end;
		} remove;

		struct {
			/* unused reserved fields */
			__u64	reserved1;
			__u64	reserved2;
			__u64	reserved3;
		} reserved;
	} arg;
} __packed;

/*
 * Start at 0x12 and not at 0 to be more strict against bugs.
 */
#define UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT	0x12
#define UFFD_EVENT_FORK		0x13
#define UFFD_EVENT_REMAP	0x14
#define UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE	0x15
#define UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP	0x16

/* flags for UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT */
#define UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WRITE	(1<<0)	/* If this was a write fault */
#define UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP		(1<<1)	/* If reason is VM_UFFD_WP */
#define UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_MINOR	(1<<2)	/* If reason is VM_UFFD_MINOR */

struct uffdio_api {
	/* userland asks for an API number and the features to enable */
	__u64 api;
	/*
	 * Kernel answers below with the all available features for
	 * the API, this notifies userland of which events and/or
	 * which flags for each event are enabled in the current
	 * kernel.
	 *
	 * Note: UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT and UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WRITE
	 * are to be considered implicitly always enabled in all kernels as
	 * long as the uffdio_api.api requested matches UFFD_API.
	 *
	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS means an UFFDIO_REGISTER
	 * with UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING mode will succeed on
	 * hugetlbfs virtual memory ranges. Adding or not adding
	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS to uffdio_api.features has
	 * no real functional effect after UFFDIO_API returns, but
	 * it's only useful for an initial feature set probe at
	 * UFFDIO_API time. There are two ways to use it:
	 *
	 * 1) by adding UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS to the
	 *    uffdio_api.features before calling UFFDIO_API, an error
	 *    will be returned by UFFDIO_API on a kernel without
	 *    hugetlbfs missing support
	 *
	 * 2) the UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS can not be added in
	 *    uffdio_api.features and instead it will be set by the
	 *    kernel in the uffdio_api.features if the kernel supports
	 *    it, so userland can later check if the feature flag is
	 *    present in uffdio_api.features after UFFDIO_API
	 *    succeeded.
	 *
	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM works the same as
	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS, but it applies to shmem
	 * (i.e. tmpfs and other shmem based APIs).

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