Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: userfaultfd: correct dirty flags set for both present and swap pte

[Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>]

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:07:35PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> > From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
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> > As David pointed out, what truly matters for mremap and userfaultfd
> > move operations is the soft dirty bit. The current comment and
> > implementation—which always sets the dirty bit for present PTEs
> > and fails to set the soft dirty bit for swap PTEs—are incorrect.
> > This patch updates the behavior to correctly set the soft dirty bit
> > for both present and swap PTEs in accordance with mremap.
> >
> > Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/02f14ee1-923f-47e3-a994-4950afb9afcc@redhat.com/
> > Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> > Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
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> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

The function was introduced in 6.8. We should probably CC stable as well.

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> Peter Xu
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