Article 4EBVX [$] Write-protect for userfaultfd()

[$] Write-protect for userfaultfd()

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The userfaultfd()system call allows one process to handle page faults for another - in userspace. Its original use case was to support transparent containermigration, but other uses have developed over the years. At the 2019 LinuxStorage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, Andrea Arcangelidescribed a scheme to add write-protectionsupport to userfaultfd(). After a year of lost time fightingspeculative-execution problems, Arcangeli is about ready to move this featureinto the mainline.
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