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authorAxel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>2023-07-08 00:55:38 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-18 20:12:17 +0300
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mm: userfaultfd: document and enable new UFFDIO_POISON feature
Update the userfaultfd API to advertise this feature as part of feature flags and supported ioctls (returned upon registration). Add basic documentation describing the new feature. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-7-axelrasmussen@google.com Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -244,6 +244,21 @@ write-protected (so future writes will also result in a WP fault). These ioctls
support a mode flag (``UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP`` or ``UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP``
respectively) to configure the mapping this way.
+Memory Poisioning Emulation
+---------------------------
+
+In response to a fault (either missing or minor), an action userspace can
+take to "resolve" it is to issue a ``UFFDIO_POISON``. This will cause any
+future faulters to either get a SIGBUS, or in KVM's case the guest will
+receive an MCE as if there were hardware memory poisoning.
+
+This is used to emulate hardware memory poisoning. Imagine a VM running on a
+machine which experiences a real hardware memory error. Later, we live migrate
+the VM to another physical machine. Since we want the migration to be
+transparent to the guest, we want that same address range to act as if it was
+still poisoned, even though it's on a new physical host which ostensibly
+doesn't have a memory error in the exact same spot.
+
QEMU/KVM
========