userfaultfd: update documentation to describe /dev/userfaultfd
authorAxel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:56:13 +0000 (10:56 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:25:49 +0000 (20:25 -0700)
commit816284a3d0e27828b5cc35f3cf539b0711939ce3
tree0de99159b11eb8f0a829eff5ed12011861e70b69
parent77c07f7cca9fc7c99aa26058e4674980e0cbb186
userfaultfd: update documentation to describe /dev/userfaultfd

Explain the different ways to create a new userfaultfd, and how access
control works for each way.

[axelrasmussen@google.com: improve wording in documentation, per Mike]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819205201.658693-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220808175614.3885028-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst