From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@amazon.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
"David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:18:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251130111812.699259-3-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251130111812.699259-1-rppt@kernel.org>
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
When userspace resolves a page fault in a shmem VMA with UFFDIO_CONTINUE
it needs to get a folio that already exists in the pagecache backing
that VMA.
Instead of using shmem_get_folio() for that, add a get_folio_noalloc()
method to 'struct vm_operations_struct' that will return a folio if it
exists in the VMA's pagecache at given pgoff.
Implement get_folio_noalloc() method for shmem and slightly refactor
userfaultfd's mfill_atomic() and mfill_atomic_pte_continue() to support
this new API.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 9 ++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++
mm/userfaultfd.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 7c79b3369b82..6351a9cde360 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -690,6 +690,15 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
struct page *(*find_normal_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr);
#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
+#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+ /*
+ * Called by userfault to resolve UFFDIO_CONTINUE request.
+ * Should return the folio found at pgoff in the VMA's pagecache if it
+ * exists or ERR_PTR otherwise.
+ * The returned folio is locked and with reference held.
+ */
+ struct folio *(*get_folio_noalloc)(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff);
+#endif
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5a3f0f754dc0..9f8c54ad0e32 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3262,6 +3262,18 @@ int shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
shmem_inode_unacct_blocks(inode, 1);
return ret;
}
+
+static struct folio *shmem_get_folio_noalloc(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff)
+{
+ struct folio *folio;
+ int err;
+
+ err = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
+ if (err)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+ return folio;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_USERFAULTFD */
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
@@ -5294,6 +5306,9 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct shmem_vm_ops = {
.set_policy = shmem_set_policy,
.get_policy = shmem_get_policy,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+ .get_folio_noalloc = shmem_get_folio_noalloc,
+#endif
};
static const struct vm_operations_struct shmem_anon_vm_ops = {
@@ -5303,6 +5318,9 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct shmem_anon_vm_ops = {
.set_policy = shmem_set_policy,
.get_policy = shmem_get_policy,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+ .get_folio_noalloc = shmem_get_folio_noalloc,
+#endif
};
int shmem_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 8dc964389b0d..5610f29dac73 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -388,15 +388,12 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
struct page *page;
int ret;
- ret = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
+ folio = dst_vma->vm_ops->get_folio_noalloc(inode, pgoff);
/* Our caller expects us to return -EFAULT if we failed to find folio */
- if (ret == -ENOENT)
- ret = -EFAULT;
- if (ret)
- goto out;
- if (!folio) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(folio) == -ENOENT || !folio)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return PTR_ERR(folio);
}
page = folio_file_page(folio, pgoff);
@@ -411,13 +408,12 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
goto out_release;
folio_unlock(folio);
- ret = 0;
-out:
- return ret;
+ return 0;
+
out_release:
folio_unlock(folio);
folio_put(folio);
- goto out;
+ return ret;
}
/* Handles UFFDIO_POISON for all non-hugetlb VMAs. */
@@ -694,6 +690,15 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic_pte(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
return err;
}
+static __always_inline bool vma_can_mfill_atomic(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ uffd_flags_t flags)
+{
+ if (uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE))
+ return vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->get_folio_noalloc;
+
+ return vma_is_anonymous(vma) || vma_is_shmem(vma);
+}
+
static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
unsigned long dst_start,
unsigned long src_start,
@@ -766,10 +771,7 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
return mfill_atomic_hugetlb(ctx, dst_vma, dst_start,
src_start, len, flags);
- if (!vma_is_anonymous(dst_vma) && !vma_is_shmem(dst_vma))
- goto out_unlock;
- if (!vma_is_shmem(dst_vma) &&
- uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE))
+ if (!vma_can_mfill_atomic(dst_vma, flags))
goto out_unlock;
while (src_addr < src_start + len) {
@@ -1985,9 +1987,21 @@ bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)
return false;
- if ((vm_flags & VM_UFFD_MINOR) &&
- (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && !vma_is_shmem(vma)))
- return false;
+ if (vm_flags & VM_UFFD_MINOR) {
+ /*
+ * If only MINOR mode is requested and we can request an
+ * existing folio from VMA's page cache, allow it
+ */
+ if (vm_flags == VM_UFFD_MINOR && vma->vm_ops &&
+ vma->vm_ops->get_folio_noalloc)
+ return true;
+ /*
+ * Only hugetlb and shmem can support MINOR mode in combination
+ * with other modes
+ */
+ if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && !vma_is_shmem(vma))
+ return false;
+ }
/*
* If wp async enabled, and WP is the only mode enabled, allow any
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-30 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-30 11:18 [PATCH v3 0/5] mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults Mike Rapoport
2025-11-30 11:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2025-11-30 11:18 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2025-11-30 11:18 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason Mike Rapoport
2025-12-01 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-30 11:18 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] guest_memfd: add support for userfaultfd minor mode Mike Rapoport
2025-12-01 9:12 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-01 13:39 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-01 15:54 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-01 16:48 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-01 18:35 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-01 20:12 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-01 20:57 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-02 11:50 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-02 15:36 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-02 15:59 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-03 9:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-03 10:03 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-12-04 17:27 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-30 11:18 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
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