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,
"David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:19:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q6k7ukgwmne6kaitupkf2cv5dlmr62qoedne7mzknbjdivpr6i@gah5trw4eqiy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251125183840.2368510-4-rppt@kernel.org>
* Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> [251125 13:39]:
> 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_MISSING).
>
> 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_MISSING) to complete a page fault.
>
> Replace a call to handle_userfault(VM_UFFD_MISSING) 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>
Same nit as David, but the rest looks good.
> ---
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 10 +++++++++-
> mm/memory.c | 2 ++
> mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 90e5790c318f..df71b057111b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -1523,6 +1523,8 @@ typedef __bitwise unsigned int vm_fault_t;
> * fsync() to complete (for synchronous page faults
> * in DAX)
> * @VM_FAULT_COMPLETED: ->fault completed, meanwhile mmap lock released
> + * @VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR: ->fault did not modify page tables and needs
> + * handle_userfault(VM_UFFD_MINOR) to complete
> * @VM_FAULT_HINDEX_MASK: mask HINDEX value
> *
> */
> @@ -1540,6 +1542,11 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
> VM_FAULT_DONE_COW = (__force vm_fault_t)0x001000,
> VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC = (__force vm_fault_t)0x002000,
> VM_FAULT_COMPLETED = (__force vm_fault_t)0x004000,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> + VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR = (__force vm_fault_t)0x008000,
> +#else
> + VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000000,
> +#endif
> VM_FAULT_HINDEX_MASK = (__force vm_fault_t)0x0f0000,
> };
>
> @@ -1564,7 +1571,8 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
> { VM_FAULT_FALLBACK, "FALLBACK" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_DONE_COW, "DONE_COW" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC, "NEEDDSYNC" }, \
> - { VM_FAULT_COMPLETED, "COMPLETED" }
> + { VM_FAULT_COMPLETED, "COMPLETED" }, \
> + { VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR, "UFFD_MINOR" }, \
>
> struct vm_special_mapping {
> const char *name; /* The name, e.g. "[vdso]". */
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index b59ae7ce42eb..94acbac8cefb 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -5279,6 +5279,8 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> }
>
> ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf);
> + if (unlikely(ret & VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR))
> + return handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MINOR);
> if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY |
> VM_FAULT_DONE_COW)))
I have the same concern as David here with adding instructions to the
faults that are not UFFD_MINOR.. I suspect the compiler will remove the
statement completely when UFFD is disabled (and thus ret & 0 in the
check), but it might be worth looking at this closer in the case where
uffd is enabled? It won't be as clean looking but might make the
assembly better.
> return ret;
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index e16c7c8c3e1e..a9a31c0b5979 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ static int shmem_get_folio_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
> if (folio && vma && userfaultfd_minor(vma)) {
> if (!xa_is_value(folio))
> folio_put(folio);
> - *fault_type = handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MINOR);
> + *fault_type = VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR;
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.50.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-26 15:19 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 [this message]
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
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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