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mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults

From:  Mike Rapoport <rppt-AT-kernel.org>
To:  linux-mm-AT-kvack.org
Subject:  [PATCH 0/5] mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults
Date:  Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:27:02 +0200
Message-ID:  <20251123102707.559422-1-rppt@kernel.org>
Cc:  Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange-AT-redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen-AT-google.com>, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang-AT-linux.alibaba.com>, David Hildenbrand <david-AT-redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd-AT-google.com>, James Houghton <jthoughton-AT-google.com>, "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett-AT-oracle.com>, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes-AT-oracle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko-AT-suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt-AT-kernel.org>, Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin-AT-amazon.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini-AT-redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx-AT-redhat.com>, Sean Christopherson <seanjc-AT-google.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah-AT-kernel.org>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb-AT-google.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka-AT-suse.cz>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, kvm-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest-AT-vger.kernel.org
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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>

Hi,

These patches allow guest_memfd to notify userspace about minor page
faults using userfaultfd and let userspace to resolve these page faults
using UFFDIO_CONTINUE.

To allow UFFDIO_CONTINUE outside of the core mm I added a get_shmem_folio()
callback to vm_ops that allows an address space backing a VMA to return a
folio that exists in it's page cache (patch 2)

In order for guest_memfd to notify userspace about page faults, there is a
new VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR that a ->fault() handler can return to inform the
page fault handler that it needs to call handle_userfault() to complete the
fault (patch 3).
 
Patch 4 plumbs these new goodies into guest_memfd.

This series is the minimal change I've been able to come up with to allow
integration of guest_memfd with uffd and while refactoring uffd and making
mfill_atomic() flow more linear would have been a nice improvement, it's
way out of the scope of enabling uffd with guest_memfd.

v2 changes:
* Introduce VM_FAULF_UFFD_MINOR to avoid exporting handle_userfault()
* Simplify vma_can_mfill_atomic()
* Rename get_pagecache_folio() to get_shared_folio() and use inode
instead of vma as its argument

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117114631.2029447-1-rppt...

Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (4):
  userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line
  userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE
  mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason
  guest_memfd: add support for userfaultfd minor mode

Nikita Kalyazin (1):
  KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd

 include/linux/mm.h                            |   9 ++
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |   3 +
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h                 |  36 +-----
 mm/memory.c                                   |   2 +
 mm/shmem.c                                    |  21 +++-
 mm/userfaultfd.c                              |  80 +++++++++++---
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c  | 103 ++++++++++++++++++
 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c                        |  29 +++++
 8 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)


base-commit: 6a23ae0a96a600d1d12557add110e0bb6e32730c
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2.50.1




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