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Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps
Date 2017-02-01 01:50 +0100
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:44:30 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> When a non-cooperative userfaultfd monitor copies pages in the background,
> it may encounter regions that were already unmapped. Addition of
> UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP allows the uffd monitor to track precisely changes in the
> virtual memory layout.
> 
> Since there might be different uffd contexts for the affected VMAs, we
> first should create a temporary representation for the unmap event for each
> uffd context and then notify them one by one to the appropriate userfault
> file descriptors.
> 
> The event notification occurs after the mmap_sem has been released.

I was going to bug you about not updating
Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.txt but the UFFD_FEATURE flags aren't
documented?

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Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for  memory unmaps Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-02-01 01:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for  memory unmaps Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-01 07:40 +0100

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