From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,skinsburskii@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] selftests-mm-add-hmm-test-for-mmap-lock-dropping-faults.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:10:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715211007.473AA1F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: selftests/mm: add HMM test for mmap lock-dropping faults
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
selftests-mm-add-hmm-test-for-mmap-lock-dropping-faults.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
------------------------------------------------------
From: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@gmail.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: add HMM test for mmap lock-dropping faults
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:26:42 -0700
Add test_hmm coverage for the HMM lock-dropping fault path. The test
module gets a new HMM_DMIRROR_READ_UNLOCKED ioctl that calls
hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout() with a timeout of 0, exercising the
unbounded retry mode while allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during
fault handling.
Add a userfaultfd_read selftest that registers an anonymous mapping with
UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING, services the faults from a handler thread
with UFFDIO_COPY, and verifies that HMM can read back the data supplied by
the handler. This exercises the path where handle_mm_fault() drops
mmap_lock and hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout() restarts the walk
internally.
Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.6
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/178371880218.900500.12093463712908415421.stgit@skinsburskii
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@gmail.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Lyude <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/test_hmm.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++
lib/test_hmm_uapi.h | 1
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hmm-tests.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/test_hmm.c~selftests-mm-add-hmm-test-for-mmap-lock-dropping-faults
+++ a/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -389,6 +389,67 @@ out:
return ret;
}
+static int dmirror_range_fault_unlocked(struct dmirror *dmirror,
+ struct hmm_range *range,
+ unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ while (true) {
+ ret = hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout(range, timeout);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
+ mutex_lock(&dmirror->mutex);
+ if (mmu_interval_read_retry(range->notifier,
+ range->notifier_seq)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&dmirror->mutex);
+ continue;
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+
+ ret = dmirror_do_fault(dmirror, range);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&dmirror->mutex);
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static int dmirror_fault_unlocked(struct dmirror *dmirror,
+ unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, bool write,
+ unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = dmirror->notifier.mm;
+ unsigned long addr;
+ unsigned long pfns[32];
+ struct hmm_range range = {
+ .notifier = &dmirror->notifier,
+ .hmm_pfns = pfns,
+ .pfn_flags_mask = 0,
+ .default_flags =
+ HMM_PFN_REQ_FAULT | (write ? HMM_PFN_REQ_WRITE : 0),
+ .dev_private_owner = dmirror->mdevice,
+ };
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ if (!mmget_not_zero(mm))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = range.end) {
+ range.start = addr;
+ range.end = min(addr + (ARRAY_SIZE(pfns) << PAGE_SHIFT), end);
+
+ ret = dmirror_range_fault_unlocked(dmirror, &range, timeout);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ mmput(mm);
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int dmirror_fault(struct dmirror *dmirror, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, bool write)
{
@@ -488,6 +549,48 @@ static int dmirror_read(struct dmirror *
return ret;
}
+static int dmirror_read_unlocked(struct dmirror *dmirror,
+ struct hmm_dmirror_cmd *cmd,
+ unsigned long timeout)
+{
+ struct dmirror_bounce bounce;
+ unsigned long start, end;
+ unsigned long size = cmd->npages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int ret;
+
+ start = cmd->addr;
+ end = start + size;
+ if (end < start)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ ret = dmirror_bounce_init(&bounce, start, size);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ while (1) {
+ mutex_lock(&dmirror->mutex);
+ ret = dmirror_do_read(dmirror, start, end, &bounce);
+ mutex_unlock(&dmirror->mutex);
+ if (ret != -ENOENT)
+ break;
+
+ start = cmd->addr + (bounce.cpages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ ret = dmirror_fault_unlocked(dmirror, start, end, false, timeout);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ cmd->faults++;
+ }
+
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ if (copy_to_user(u64_to_user_ptr(cmd->ptr), bounce.ptr,
+ bounce.size))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ }
+ cmd->cpages = bounce.cpages;
+ dmirror_bounce_fini(&bounce);
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int dmirror_do_write(struct dmirror *dmirror, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, struct dmirror_bounce *bounce)
{
@@ -1572,7 +1675,9 @@ static long dmirror_fops_unlocked_ioctl(
dmirror->flags = cmd.npages;
ret = 0;
break;
-
+ case HMM_DMIRROR_READ_UNLOCKED:
+ ret = dmirror_read_unlocked(dmirror, &cmd, 0);
+ break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
--- a/lib/test_hmm_uapi.h~selftests-mm-add-hmm-test-for-mmap-lock-dropping-faults
+++ a/lib/test_hmm_uapi.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct hmm_dmirror_cmd {
#define HMM_DMIRROR_CHECK_EXCLUSIVE _IOWR('H', 0x06, struct hmm_dmirror_cmd)
#define HMM_DMIRROR_RELEASE _IOWR('H', 0x07, struct hmm_dmirror_cmd)
#define HMM_DMIRROR_FLAGS _IOWR('H', 0x08, struct hmm_dmirror_cmd)
+#define HMM_DMIRROR_READ_UNLOCKED _IOWR('H', 0x09, struct hmm_dmirror_cmd)
#define HMM_DMIRROR_FLAG_FAIL_ALLOC (1ULL << 0)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hmm-tests.c~selftests-mm-add-hmm-test-for-mmap-lock-dropping-faults
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hmm-tests.c
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/eventfd.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd.h>
+#include <poll.h>
/*
* This is a private UAPI to the kernel test module so it isn't exported
@@ -2952,4 +2956,150 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(hmm, benchmark_thp_migrat
&thp_results, ®ular_results);
}
}
+/*
+ * Test that HMM can fault in pages backed by userfaultfd using the
+ * hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout() path with no timeout. This exercises
+ * the lock-drop retry logic in the HMM framework.
+ */
+struct uffd_thread_args {
+ int uffd;
+ int stop_fd;
+ void *page_buffer;
+ unsigned long page_size;
+};
+
+static void *uffd_handler_thread(void *arg)
+{
+ struct uffd_thread_args *args = arg;
+ struct uffd_msg msg;
+ struct uffdio_copy copy;
+ struct pollfd pollfd[2];
+ int ret;
+
+ pollfd[0].fd = args->uffd;
+ pollfd[0].events = POLLIN;
+ pollfd[1].fd = args->stop_fd;
+ pollfd[1].events = POLLIN;
+
+ while (1) {
+ ret = poll(pollfd, 2, -1);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ break;
+ if (pollfd[1].revents)
+ break;
+ if (!(pollfd[0].revents & POLLIN))
+ break;
+
+ ret = read(args->uffd, &msg, sizeof(msg));
+ if (ret != sizeof(msg))
+ break;
+
+ if (msg.event != UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT)
+ break;
+
+ /* Fill the page with a known pattern */
+ memset(args->page_buffer, 0xAB, args->page_size);
+
+ copy.dst = msg.arg.pagefault.address & ~(args->page_size - 1);
+ copy.src = (unsigned long)args->page_buffer;
+ copy.len = args->page_size;
+ copy.mode = 0;
+ copy.copy = 0;
+
+ ret = ioctl(args->uffd, UFFDIO_COPY, ©);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+TEST_F(hmm, userfaultfd_read)
+{
+ struct hmm_buffer *buffer;
+ struct uffd_thread_args uffd_args;
+ unsigned long npages;
+ unsigned long size;
+ unsigned long i;
+ unsigned char *ptr;
+ pthread_t thread;
+ int uffd;
+ int stop_fd;
+ int ret;
+ struct uffdio_api api;
+ struct uffdio_register reg;
+ uint64_t stop = 1;
+ ssize_t nwrite;
+
+ npages = 4;
+ size = npages << self->page_shift;
+
+ /* Create userfaultfd */
+ uffd = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd, O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK);
+ if (uffd < 0)
+ SKIP(return, "userfaultfd not available");
+
+ api.api = UFFD_API;
+ api.features = 0;
+ ret = ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &api);
+ ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
+
+ buffer = malloc(sizeof(*buffer));
+ ASSERT_NE(buffer, NULL);
+
+ buffer->fd = -1;
+ buffer->size = size;
+ buffer->mirror = malloc(size);
+ ASSERT_NE(buffer->mirror, NULL);
+
+ /* Create anonymous mapping */
+ buffer->ptr = mmap(NULL, size,
+ PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
+ -1, 0);
+ ASSERT_NE(buffer->ptr, MAP_FAILED);
+
+ /* Register the region with userfaultfd */
+ reg.range.start = (unsigned long)buffer->ptr;
+ reg.range.len = size;
+ reg.mode = UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING;
+ ret = ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_REGISTER, ®);
+ ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
+
+ /* Set up the handler thread */
+ uffd_args.uffd = uffd;
+ stop_fd = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC);
+ ASSERT_GE(stop_fd, 0);
+ uffd_args.stop_fd = stop_fd;
+ uffd_args.page_buffer = malloc(self->page_size);
+ ASSERT_NE(uffd_args.page_buffer, NULL);
+ uffd_args.page_size = self->page_size;
+
+ ret = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, uffd_handler_thread, &uffd_args);
+ ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Use the unlocked read path which allows the mmap lock to be
+ * dropped during the fault, enabling userfaultfd resolution.
+ */
+ ret = hmm_dmirror_cmd(self->fd, HMM_DMIRROR_READ_UNLOCKED,
+ buffer, npages);
+ ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
+ ASSERT_EQ(buffer->cpages, npages);
+
+ /* Verify the device read the data filled by the uffd handler */
+ ptr = buffer->mirror;
+ for (i = 0; i < size; ++i)
+ ASSERT_EQ(ptr[i], (unsigned char)0xAB);
+
+ nwrite = write(stop_fd, &stop, sizeof(stop));
+ ASSERT_EQ(nwrite, sizeof(stop));
+ pthread_join(thread, NULL);
+ close(stop_fd);
+ free(uffd_args.page_buffer);
+ close(uffd);
+ hmm_buffer_free(buffer);
+}
+
+
TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from skinsburskii@gmail.com are
lib-test_hmm-use-device-devt-for-coherent-device-range-selection.patch
mshv-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-region-faults.patch
drm-nouveau-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-svm-faults.patch
drm-nouveau-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-svm-faults-fix.patch
rdma-umem-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-odp-faults.patch
accel-amdxdna-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-range-population.patch
accel-amdxdna-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-range-population-fix.patch
drm-gpusvm-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-range-faults.patch
drm-gpusvm-use-hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout-for-range-faults-fix.patch
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