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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
commitf6f7a6369203fa3e07efb7f35cfd81efe9f25b07 (patch)
tree97bec9ddd999040822acf314647eaf4208213589 /Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
parent839fe9156fbe89c3157aa6146d22090f8cffddd8 (diff)
parentdf69f52d990bd85159727bd26e819d3a6e49c666 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Almost all of the rest of MM. There was an unusually large amount of MM material this time" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits) zpool: remove no-op module init/exit mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring zram: unify error reporting zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache() zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count() zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate' mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range() mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node() ...
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@@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
- * Bits 56-60 zero
- * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon
+ * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
+ * Bits 57-60 zero
+ * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
* Bit 62 page swapped
* Bit 63 page present
+ Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs.
+ In 4.0 and 4.1 opens by unprivileged fail with -EPERM. Starting from
+ 4.2 the PFN field is zeroed if the user does not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
+ Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability.
+
If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an
encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the
swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
@@ -159,3 +165,8 @@ Other notes:
Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
+
+Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is
+always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes
+after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for
+flags unconditionally.