Re: userfaultfd: two-step UFFDIO_API always gives -EINVAL

[Muhammad Usama Anjum <Usama.Anjum@collabora.com>]

On 11/25/24 11:01 PM, stsp wrote:
> 25.11.2024 20:44, Peter Xu пишет:
>> Apps who tracks snapshots needs the unmodified pages before being written.
>> Those cannot rely on kernel resolution because it needs more than "if the
>> page is written" - it also needs the page data before being written.
> Say I am writing a frame grabber
> (not exactly, but very close to).
> I monitor the video buffer of another
> process, and "snapshot" it with some
> frequency. I only need to know what
> pages were modified, to reduce the
> bandwidth to an absolute minimum,
> and if the process is not playing - then
> to not grab anything until it resumes.
> UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP
> works quite well for me already, but
> I envision a huge boost with
> UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC.
> What would you suggest for that usage
> scenario?
The UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC was designed for exactly this case.
The IOCTL will return you the modified pages. An example of usage
can be found in selftest/mm/pagemap_ioctl.c.

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BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum