linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] userfaultfd.2: reword to account for new fault resolution ioctls

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Message-ID: <pzeysxf4x5c52rs4i74mvhpc7whuih3sbz3wdv75ll3mih5uur@it6qhwo6idje>
Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:29:39 +0200
From:   Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To:     Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] userfaultfd.2: reword to account for new fault
 resolution ioctls

Hi Axel,

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:01:58PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> Basically, reword the sentence to clarify that this isn't a complete
> list. I don't believe it's worth maintaining a fully complete list here,
> instead ioctl_userfaultfd.2 is the place to do that. Let this just be an
> example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>

Patch applied.

Thanks,
Alex

> ---
>  man2/userfaultfd.2 | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/userfaultfd.2 b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> index 1b2af22f9..00d94e514 100644
> --- a/man2/userfaultfd.2
> +++ b/man2/userfaultfd.2
> @@ -222,11 +222,12 @@ operation,
>  a page fault occurring in the requested memory range, and satisfying
>  the mode defined at the registration time, will be forwarded by the kernel to
>  the user-space application.
> -The application can then use the
> +The application can then use various (e.g.
>  .B UFFDIO_COPY ,
>  .B UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE ,
>  or
>  .B UFFDIO_CONTINUE
> +)
>  .BR ioctl (2)
>  operations to resolve the page fault.
>  .PP
> -- 
> 2.42.0.459.ge4e396fd5e-goog
> 

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