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| Mike Rapoport <rppt-AT-kernel.org> |
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| Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org> |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH v3 00/15] mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd |
| Date: |
| Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:11:01 +0300 |
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| <20260330101116.1117699-1-rppt@kernel.org> |
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| Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange-AT-redhat.com>, Andrei Vagin <avagin-AT-google.com>, Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen-AT-google.com>, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang-AT-linux.alibaba.com>, David Hildenbrand <david-AT-kernel.org>, Harry Yoo <harry.yoo-AT-oracle.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd-AT-google.com>, James Houghton <jthoughton-AT-google.com>, "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett-AT-oracle.com>, "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs-AT-kernel.org>, "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy-AT-infradead.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko-AT-suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt-AT-kernel.org>, Muchun Song <muchun.song-AT-linux.dev>, Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin-AT-amazon.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador-AT-suse.de>, 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>, kvm-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-mm-AT-kvack.org |
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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Hi,
These patches enable support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd.
As the ground work I refactored userfaultfd handling of PTE-based memory types
(anonymous and shmem) and converted them to use vm_uffd_ops for allocating a
folio or getting an existing folio from the page cache. shmem also implements
callbacks that add a folio to the page cache after the data passed in
UFFDIO_COPY was copied and remove the folio from the page cache if page table
update fails.
In order for guest_memfd to notify userspace about page faults, there are new
VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR and VM_FAULT_UFFD_MISSING that a ->fault() handler can
return to inform the page fault handler that it needs to call
handle_userfault() to complete the fault.
Nikita helped to plumb these new goodies into guest_memfd and provided basic
tests to verify that guest_memfd works with userfaultfd.
The handling of UFFDIO_MISSING in guest_memfd requires ability to remove a
folio from page cache, the best way I could find was exporting
filemap_remove_folio() to KVM.
I deliberately left hugetlb out, at least for the most part.
hugetlb handles acquisition of VMA and more importantly establishing of parent
page table entry differently than PTE-based memory types. This is a different
abstraction level than what vm_uffd_ops provides and people objected to
exposing such low level APIs as a part of VMA operations.
Also, to enable uffd in guest_memfd refactoring of hugetlb is not needed and I
prefer to delay it until the dust settles after the changes in this set.
v3 changes:
* add fixes from Harry and Andrei
* fix handling of WP-only mode for WP_ASYNC contexts in vma_can_userfault()
* address David's comments about mfill_get_pmd() and rename it to
mfill_establish_pmd()
* add VM_WARN()s for unsupported operations (James)
* update comments using James' suggestions
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306171815.3160826-1-rppt...
* instead of returning uffd-specific values from ->fault() handlers add
__do_userfault() helper to resolve user faults in __do_fault()
* address comments from Peter
* rebased on v7.0-c1
RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260127192936.1250096-1-rppt...
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (11):
userfaultfd: introduce mfill_copy_folio_locked() helper
userfaultfd: introduce struct mfill_state
userfaultfd: introduce mfill_establish_pmd() helper
userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_vma() and mfill_put_vma()
userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in
mfill_atomic_pte_copy()
userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line
userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops
shmem, userfaultfd: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE
userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio()
shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops
userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic
Nikita Kalyazin (3):
KVM: guest_memfd: implement userfaultfd operations
KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd
KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd missing for guest_memfd
Peter Xu (1):
mm: generalize handling of userfaults in __do_fault()
include/linux/mm.h | 5 +
include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 14 -
include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 73 +-
mm/filemap.c | 1 +
mm/hugetlb.c | 15 +
mm/memory.c | 43 ++
mm/shmem.c | 188 ++---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 694 ++++++++++--------
.../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c | 191 +++++
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 84 ++-
10 files changed, 860 insertions(+), 448 deletions(-)
base-commit: c369299895a591d96745d6492d4888259b004a9e
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