Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] userfaultfd: Add feature to request for a signal delivery

2017-07-27 Thread Prakash Sangappa
Yes, I will provide a man page update. -Prakash. On 7/27/17 4:58 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: Please do not forget to provide a man page update with clarified semantic.

Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] userfaultfd: Add feature to request for a signal delivery

2017-07-27 Thread Michal Hocko
Please do not forget to provide a man page update with clarified semantic. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs

Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] userfaultfd: Add feature to request for a signal delivery

2017-07-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:47:41AM -0400, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > In some cases, userfaultfd mechanism should just deliver a SIGBUS signal > to the faulting process, instead of the page-fault event. Dealing with > page-fault event using a monitor thread can be an overhead in these > cases. For ex

Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] userfaultfd: Add feature to request for a signal delivery

2017-07-26 Thread Mike Rapoport
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:47:41AM -0400, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > In some cases, userfaultfd mechanism should just deliver a SIGBUS signal > to the faulting process, instead of the page-fault event. Dealing with > page-fault event using a monitor thread can be an overhead in these > cases. For ex