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userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization
authorAndrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Fri, 4 Sep 2015 22:46:31 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 4 Sep 2015 23:54:41 +0000 (16:54 -0700)
commit86039bd3b4e6a1129318cbfed4e0a6e001656635
tree5bbcb2815c457977979e5e5086c33f9225c2ae42
parentc1294d05de5df1ab8c93aa13c531782ede907e14
userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization

Once an userfaultfd has been created and certain region of the process
virtual address space have been registered into it, the thread responsible
for doing the memory externalization can manage the page faults in
userland by talking to the kernel using the userfaultfd protocol.

poll() can be used to know when there are new pending userfaults to be
read (POLLIN).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Feiner <[email protected]>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
fs/userfaultfd.c [new file with mode: 0644]
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