userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS

Userland developers asked to be notified immediately by the UFFDIO_API
ioctl if hugetlbfs missing mode is supported by userfaultfd in the
running kernel.  This avoids the need to run UFFDIO_REGISTER on a
hugetlbfs virtual memory range to find out.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: aagit

include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h

@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@
  * means the userland is reading).
  */
 #define UFFD_API ((__u64)0xAA)
-#define UFFD_API_FEATURES (UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK |	    \
-			   UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP |	    \
-			   UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED)
+#define UFFD_API_FEATURES (UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK |		\
+			   UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP |		\
+			   UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED |	\
+			   UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS)
 #define UFFD_API_IOCTLS				\
 	((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER |		\
 	 (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER |	\
@@ -125,11 +126,32 @@ struct uffdio_api {
 	 * Note: UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT and UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WRITE
 	 * are to be considered implicitly always enabled in all kernels as
 	 * long as the uffdio_api.api requested matches UFFD_API.
+	 *
+	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS means an UFFDIO_REGISTER
+	 * with UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING mode will succeed on
+	 * hugetlbfs virtual memory ranges. Adding or not adding
+	 * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS to uffdio_api.features has
+	 * no real functional effect after UFFDIO_API returns, but
+	 * it's only useful for an initial feature set probe at
+	 * UFFDIO_API time. There are two ways to use it:
+	 *
+	 * 1) by adding UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS to the
+	 *    uffdio_api.features before calling UFFDIO_API, an error
+	 *    will be returned by UFFDIO_API on a kernel without
+	 *    hugetlbfs missing support
+	 *
+	 * 2) the UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS can not be added in
+	 *    uffdio_api.features and instead it will be set by the
+	 *    kernel in the uffdio_api.features if the kernel supports
+	 *    it, so userland can later check if the feature flag is
+	 *    present in uffdio_api.features after UFFDIO_API
+	 *    succeeded.
 	 */
 #define UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP		(1<<0)
 #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK			(1<<1)
 #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP		(1<<2)
 #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_MADVDONTNEED		(1<<3)
+#define UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS		(1<<4)
 	__u64 features;
 
 	__u64 ioctls;