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@@ -16,12 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
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* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
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* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
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* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
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* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
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* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
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* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
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- * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped
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+ * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
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* Bits 57-60 zero
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* Bits 57-60 zero
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- * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon
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+ * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
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* Bit 62 page swapped
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* Bit 62 page swapped
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* Bit 63 page present
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* Bit 63 page present
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+ Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs.
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+ In 4.0 and 4.1 opens by unprivileged fail with -EPERM. Starting from
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+ 4.2 the PFN field is zeroed if the user does not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
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+ Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability.
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If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an
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If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an
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encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the
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encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the
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swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
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swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
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@@ -160,3 +165,8 @@ Other notes:
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Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
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Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
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the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
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the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
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into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
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into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
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+Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is
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+always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes
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+after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for
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+flags unconditionally.
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