+ mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm: convert pXd_devmap checks to vma_is_dax
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Subject: mm: convert pXd_devmap checks to vma_is_dax
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:57:53 +1000

Patch series "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type", v3.

All users of dax now require a ZONE_DEVICE page which is properly
refcounted.  This means there is no longer any need for the PFN_DEV,
PFN_MAP and PFN_SPECIAL flags.  Furthermore the PFN_SG_CHAIN and
PFN_SG_LAST flags never appear to have been used.  It is therefore
possible to remove the pfn_t type and replace any usage with raw pfns.

The remaining users of PFN_DEV have simply passed this to
vmf_insert_mixed() to create pte_devmap() mappings.  It is unclear why
this was the case but presumably to ensure vm_normal_page() does not
return these pages.  These users can be trivially converted to raw pfns
and creating a pXX_special() mapping to ensure vm_normal_page() still
doesn't return these pages.

Now that there are no users of PFN_DEV we can remove the devmap page table
bit and all associated functions and macros, freeing up a software page
table bit.


This patch (of 14):

Currently dax is the only user of pmd and pud mapped ZONE_DEVICE pages. 
Therefore page walkers that want to exclude DAX pages can check pmd_devmap
or pud_devmap.  However soon dax will no longer set PFN_DEV, meaning dax
pages are mapped as normal pages.

Ensure page walkers that currently use pXd_devmap to skip DAX pages
continue to do so by adding explicit checks of the VMA instead.

Remove vma_is_dax() check from mm/userfaultfd.c as validate_move_areas()
will already skip DAX VMA's on account of them not being anonymous.

The check in userfaultfd_must_wait() is also redundant as
vma_can_userfault() should have already filtered out dax vma's.

For HMM the pud_devmap check seems unnecessary as there is no reason we
shouldn't be able to handle any leaf PUD here so remove it also.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.176965585864cb8d2cf41464b44dcc0471e643a0.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f0611f6f475f48fcdf34c65084a359aefef4cccc.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/userfaultfd.c |    2 +-
 mm/hmm.c         |    2 +-
 mm/userfaultfd.c |    6 ------
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax
+++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ again:
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = false;
-	if (!pmd_present(_pmd) || pmd_devmap(_pmd))
+	if (!pmd_present(_pmd))
 		goto out;
 
 	if (pmd_trans_huge(_pmd)) {
--- a/mm/hmm.c~mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax
+++ a/mm/hmm.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_pud(pud_t *pudp,
 		return hmm_vma_walk_hole(start, end, -1, walk);
 	}
 
-	if (pud_leaf(pud) && pud_devmap(pud)) {
+	if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
 		unsigned long i, npages, pfn;
 		unsigned int required_fault;
 		unsigned long *hmm_pfns;
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c~mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax
+++ a/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1818,12 +1818,6 @@ ssize_t move_pages(struct userfaultfd_ct
 
 		ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(src_pmd, src_vma);
 		if (ptl) {
-			if (pmd_devmap(*src_pmd)) {
-				spin_unlock(ptl);
-				err = -ENOENT;
-				break;
-			}
-
 			/* Check if we can move the pmd without splitting it. */
 			if (move_splits_huge_pmd(dst_addr, src_addr, src_start + len) ||
 			    !pmd_none(dst_pmdval)) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from apopple@nvidia.com are

mm-convert-pxd_devmap-checks-to-vma_is_dax.patch
mm-filter-zone-device-pages-returned-from-folio_walk_start.patch
mm-remove-remaining-uses-of-pfn_dev.patch
mm-convert-vmf_insert_mixed-from-using-pte_devmap-to-pte_special.patch
mm-gup-remove-pxx_devmap-usage-from-get_user_pages.patch
mm-huge_memory-remove-pxd_devmap-usage-from-insert_pxd_pfn.patch
mm-remove-redundant-pxd_devmap-calls.patch
mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-pmd_devmap-check.patch
powerpc-remove-checks-for-devmap-pages-and-pmds-puds.patch
fs-dax-remove-fs_dax_limited-config-option.patch
mm-remove-devmap-related-functions-and-page-table-bits.patch
mm-remove-pfn_dev-pfn_map-pfn_special-pfn_sg_chain-and-pfn_sg_last.patch
mm-remove-callers-of-pfn_t-functionality.patch
mm-memremap-remove-unused-devmap_managed_key.patch