linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 10/10] userfaultfd: update documentation to mention shmem minor faults

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Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:47:32 -0700
From:   Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
Cc:     linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 10/10] userfaultfd: update documentation to mention shmem
 minor faults

Generally, the documentation we wrote for hugetlbfs-based minor faults
still all applies. The only missing piece is to mention the new feature
flag which indicates that the kernel supports this for shmem as well.

Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
index 3aa38e8b8361..6528036093e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ events, except page fault notifications, may be generated:
 
 - ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS`` indicates that the kernel supports
   ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MINOR`` registration for hugetlbfs virtual memory
-  areas.
+  areas. ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM`` is the analogous feature indicating
+  support for shmem virtual memory areas.
 
 The userland application should set the feature flags it intends to use
 when invoking the ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl, to request that those features be
-- 
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