From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, 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>,
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 v2 4/5] guest_memfd: add support for userfaultfd minor mode
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:22:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4pjmnp7rvgftqg2l3icju2sduqfwun53ugbkw2pabbegpshvu4@uto2h4so2rgs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251125183840.2368510-5-rppt@kernel.org>
* Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> [251125 13:39]:
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
>
> userfaultfd notifications about minor page faults used for live migration
> and snapshotting of VMs with memory backed by shared hugetlbfs or tmpfs
> mappings as described in detail in commit 7677f7fd8be7 ("userfaultfd: add
> minor fault registration mode").
>
> To use the same mechanism for VMs that use guest_memfd to map their memory,
> guest_memfd should support userfaultfd minor mode.
>
> Extend ->fault() method of guest_memfd with ability to notify core page
> fault handler that a page fault requires handle_userfault(VM_UFFD_MINOR) to
> complete and add implementation of ->get_shared_folio() to guest_memfd
> vm_ops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> ---
> virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index ffadc5ee8e04..2a2b076293f9 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
> #include <linux/pagemap.h>
> #include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
> +#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
>
> #include "kvm_mm.h"
>
> @@ -369,6 +370,12 @@ static vm_fault_t kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> return vmf_error(err);
> }
>
> + if (userfaultfd_minor(vmf->vma)) {
> + folio_unlock(folio);
> + folio_put(folio);
> + return VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR;
> + }
> +
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_large(folio))) {
> ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> goto out_folio;
> @@ -390,8 +397,29 @@ static vm_fault_t kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> +static struct folio *kvm_gmem_get_folio(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff)
> +{
> + struct folio *folio;
> +
> + folio = kvm_gmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff);
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio))
> + return folio;
> +
> + if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
> + clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0));
> + kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(folio);
> + }
> +
> + return folio;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> static const struct vm_operations_struct kvm_gmem_vm_ops = {
> .fault = kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> + .get_folio = kvm_gmem_get_folio,
> +#endif
> };
>
> static int kvm_gmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> --
> 2.50.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-26 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-25 18:38 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26 15:05 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-11-25 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26 10:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-26 15:11 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-11-25 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 19:21 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-27 11:18 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-27 14:10 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-30 11:05 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26 10:19 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-26 15:19 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-11-26 16:49 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-25 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] guest_memfd: add support for userfaultfd minor mode Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26 10:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-26 15:22 ` Liam R. Howlett [this message]
2025-11-26 16:49 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-27 10:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-27 11:19 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-27 19:04 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-28 12:15 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-27 11:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-25 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26 15:23 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-11-26 16:49 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-27 10:39 ` Mike Rapoport
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