From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
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Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v3 00/15] mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:11:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330101116.1117699-1-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
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@kernel.org
* 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@kernel.org
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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2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-30 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-30 10:11 Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_copy_folio_locked() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-03-31 3:33 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] userfaultfd: introduce struct mfill_state Mike Rapoport
2026-03-31 7:03 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-03-31 14:32 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-31 15:24 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-04-01 7:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-01 17:37 ` Andrew Morton
2026-04-01 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2026-04-02 4:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_establish_pmd() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-03-31 7:50 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_vma() and mfill_put_vma() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in mfill_atomic_pte_copy() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 16:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-03-31 11:42 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] shmem, userfaultfd: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] mm: generalize handling of userfaults in __do_fault() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] KVM: guest_memfd: implement userfaultfd operations Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd missing " Mike Rapoport
2026-03-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd Andrew Morton
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