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ioctl_userfaultfd.2: Update UFFDIO_API description
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -95,11 +95,6 @@ struct uffdio_api {
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The
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.I api
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field denotes the API version requested by the application.
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Before the call, the
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.I features
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field must be initialized to zero.
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In the future, it is intended that this field can be used to ask
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whether particular features are supported.
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The kernel verifies that it can support the requested API version,
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and sets the
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@ -109,9 +104,40 @@ and
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fields to bit masks representing all the available features and the generic
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.BR ioctl (2)
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operations available.
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Currently, zero (i.e., no feature bits) is placed in the
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For Linux kernel versions before 4.11, the
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.I features
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field must be initialized to zero before the call to
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.I UFFDIO_API
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, and zero (i.e., no feature bits) is placed in the
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.I features
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field by the kernel upon return from
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.BR ioctl (2).
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Starting from Linux 4.11, the
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.I features
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field can be used to to ask whether particular features are supported
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and explicitly enable userfaultfd features that are disabled by default.
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The kernel always reports all the available features in the
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.I features
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field.
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.\" FIXME add more details about feature negotiation and enablement
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Since Linux 4.11, the following feature bits may be set:
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS
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.TP
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.B UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM
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.\" FIXME add feature description
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The returned
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.I ioctls
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field can contain the following bits:
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