From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, 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>,
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>,
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:59:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b1916a6-0883-4713-8334-17d3932fe3b9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251130111812.699259-4-rppt@kernel.org>
On 11/30/25 12:18, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
>
> When a VMA is registered with userfaulfd in minor mode, its ->fault()
> method should check if a folio exists in the page cache and if yes
> ->fault() should call handle_userfault(VM_UFFD_MINOR).
>
> Instead of calling handle_userfault() directly from a specific ->fault()
> implementation introduce new fault reason VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR that will
> notify the core page fault handler that it should call
> handle_userfaultfd(VM_UFFD_MINOR) to complete a page fault.
>
> Replace a call to handle_userfault(VM_UFFD_MINOR) in shmem and use the
> new VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR there instead.
>
> For configurations that don't enable CONFIG_USERFAULTFD,
> VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR is set to 0.
>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
LGTM and does not look too invasive for me.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-01 8:59 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 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
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) [this message]
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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