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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2015-09-05 01:46:04 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-05 02:54:41 +0300
commit1038628d80e96e3a086189172d9be8eb85ecfabf (patch)
tree50d970e531405f4a472ffc52070f749591a4dfa2 /include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
parent51360155eccb907ff8635bd10fc7de876408c2e0 (diff)
downloadlinux-1038628d80e96e3a086189172d9be8eb85ecfabf.tar.xz
userfaultfd: uAPI
Defines the uAPI of the userfaultfd, notably the ioctl numbers and protocol. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com> Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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+/*
+ * include/linux/userfaultfd.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_USERFAULTFD_H
+#define _LINUX_USERFAULTFD_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#define UFFD_API ((__u64)0xAA)
+/* FIXME: add "|UFFD_BIT_WP" to UFFD_API_BITS after implementing it */
+#define UFFD_API_BITS (UFFD_BIT_WRITE)
+#define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \
+ ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \
+ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \
+ (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_API)
+#define UFFD_API_RANGE_IOCTLS \
+ ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_WAKE)
+
+/*
+ * Valid ioctl command number range with this API is from 0x00 to
+ * 0x3F. UFFDIO_API is the fixed number, everything else can be
+ * changed by implementing a different UFFD_API. If sticking to the
+ * same UFFD_API more ioctl can be added and userland will be aware of
+ * which ioctl the running kernel implements through the ioctl command
+ * bitmask written by the UFFDIO_API.
+ */
+#define _UFFDIO_REGISTER (0x00)
+#define _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER (0x01)
+#define _UFFDIO_WAKE (0x02)
+#define _UFFDIO_API (0x3F)
+
+/* userfaultfd ioctl ids */
+#define UFFDIO 0xAA
+#define UFFDIO_API _IOWR(UFFDIO, _UFFDIO_API, \
+ struct uffdio_api)
+#define UFFDIO_REGISTER _IOWR(UFFDIO, _UFFDIO_REGISTER, \
+ struct uffdio_register)
+#define UFFDIO_UNREGISTER _IOR(UFFDIO, _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER, \
+ struct uffdio_range)
+#define UFFDIO_WAKE _IOR(UFFDIO, _UFFDIO_WAKE, \
+ struct uffdio_range)
+
+/*
+ * Valid bits below PAGE_SHIFT in the userfault address read through
+ * the read() syscall.
+ */
+#define UFFD_BIT_WRITE (1<<0) /* this was a write fault, MISSING or WP */
+#define UFFD_BIT_WP (1<<1) /* handle_userfault() reason VM_UFFD_WP */
+#define UFFD_BITS 2 /* two above bits used for UFFD_BIT_* mask */
+
+struct uffdio_api {
+ /* userland asks for an API number */
+ __u64 api;
+
+ /* kernel answers below with the available features for the API */
+ __u64 bits;
+ __u64 ioctls;
+};
+
+struct uffdio_range {
+ __u64 start;
+ __u64 len;
+};
+
+struct uffdio_register {
+ struct uffdio_range range;
+#define UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING ((__u64)1<<0)
+#define UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP ((__u64)1<<1)
+ __u64 mode;
+
+ /*
+ * kernel answers which ioctl commands are available for the
+ * range, keep at the end as the last 8 bytes aren't read.
+ */
+ __u64 ioctls;
+};
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_USERFAULTFD_H */