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Mon, 25 May 2026 07:37:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rppt@kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com, david@kernel.org Cc: ljs@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, vbabka@kernel.org, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, ziy@nvidia.com, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, jthoughton@google.com, aarcange@redhat.com, sj@kernel.org, usama.arif@linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" Subject: [PATCH v4 00/14] userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 12:37:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20260525113737.1942478-1-kas@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This series adds userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest memory, so a VMM can identify cold pages and evict them to tiered or remote storage. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260427114607.4068647-1-kas@kernel.org/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1778254670.git.kas@kernel.org/ v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260522133857.552279-1-kirill@shutemov.name/ == Changes since v3 == - Rebased onto mm-new, including Mike Rapoport's fs/userfaultfd.c -> mm/userfaultfd.c - 05/14, 13/14: Reviewed-by from Mike folded. - 06/14: hugetlb sites now restore _PAGE_PSE via arch_make_huge_pte() after huge_pte_modify(); move_swap_pte() re-arms the uffd PTE bit when dst_vma is RWP-armed. - Man-page patches dropped; will be sent against the linux-man tree separately. == Problem == A VMM managing guest memory needs to: 1. detect which pages are still being touched (working-set tracking); 2. safely evict cold pages to slower tiered or remote storage; 3. fetch them back on demand when accessed again. == Approach == UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP is a new userfaultfd registration mode, in parallel with the existing MODE_MISSING / MODE_WP / MODE_MINOR. It uses the same mechanism on every backing -- anon, shmem, hugetlbfs: - PAGE_NONE on the PTE (the same primitive NUMA balancing uses) makes the page inaccessible while keeping it resident; - the uffd PTE bit (the one MODE_WP already owns) marks the entry as "userfaultfd-tracked" so the protnone fault path can tell an RWP fault apart from an mprotect(PROT_NONE) or NUMA hinting fault. VM_UFFD_WP and VM_UFFD_RWP are mutually exclusive per VMA, so the same PTE bit safely carries both meanings depending on the registered VMA flag. In sync mode, the kernel delivers a UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_RWP message to the registered handler, and the handler resolves the fault with UFFDIO_RWPROTECT clearing MODE_RWP. In async mode (UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC), the fault is auto-resolved in-place: the kernel restores the original PTE permissions and the faulting thread continues without a userfaultfd message ever being delivered. Userspace then learns which pages were touched by reading PAGE_IS_ACCESSED out of PAGEMAP_SCAN -- pages whose uffd bit is still set were not re-accessed since the last RWP cycle. UFFDIO_RWPROTECT is the protect/unprotect ioctl, mirroring UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT. UFFDIO_SET_MODE flips RWP_ASYNC <-> sync at runtime under mmap_write_lock(), so a VMM can run in async mode for detection and switch to sync for race-free eviction without re-registering the userfaultfd. == Typical VMM workflow == /* arm */ UFFDIO_API(features = RWP | RWP_ASYNC) UFFDIO_REGISTER(MODE_RWP) /* detection cycle */ UFFDIO_RWPROTECT(range, RWP) sleep(interval) PAGEMAP_SCAN(!PAGE_IS_ACCESSED) -> cold pages /* eviction */ UFFDIO_SET_MODE(disable = RWP_ASYNC) /* sync */ pwrite(cold) + fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, cold) /* races trapped */ UFFDIO_SET_MODE(enable = RWP_ASYNC) /* resume */ == Series layout == Patches 1 to 3 are preparatory: 1: decouple protnone helpers from CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING. 2-3: rename _PAGE_BIT_UFFD_WP, pte_uffd_wp() and friends to drop the _WP suffix, since the bit now carries WP and RWP meaning depending on the VMA flag. The SCAN_PTE_UFFD enum's ftrace output string is intentionally kept as "pte_uffd_wp" so trace-based tooling does not silently break. Patches 4 to 7 add the in-kernel mechanism: 4: VM_UFFD_RWP VMA flag (aliased to VM_NONE until 8/14 introduces CONFIG_USERFAULTFD_RWP together with the UAPI). 5: MM_CP_UFFD_RWP change_protection() primitive (PAGE_NONE + uffd bit, plus a RESOLVE counterpart). 6: marker preservation across swap, device-exclusive, migration, fork, mremap, UFFDIO_MOVE, hugetlb copy, and mprotect(). 7: handle VM_UFFD_RWP in khugepaged, rmap, and GUP. Patches 8 to 12 wire the userspace surface: 8: UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT plumbing (introduces CONFIG_USERFAULTFD_RWP). 9: RWP fault delivery and exposure of UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP. 10: PAGE_IS_ACCESSED in PAGEMAP_SCAN. 11: UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC for async fault resolution. 12: UFFDIO_SET_MODE for runtime sync/async toggle. Patches 13 and 14 are kernel tests and Documentation/. Matching userfaultfd(2) and ioctl_userfaultfd(2) man-page updates will be sent as a separate patchset against the kernel.org linux-man tree. Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) (14): mm: decouple protnone helpers from CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING mm: rename uffd-wp PTE bit macros to uffd mm: rename uffd-wp PTE accessors to uffd mm: add VM_UFFD_RWP VMA flag mm: add MM_CP_UFFD_RWP change_protection() flag mm: preserve RWP marker across PTE rewrites mm: handle VM_UFFD_RWP in khugepaged, rmap, and GUP userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT plumbing mm/userfaultfd: add RWP fault delivery and expose UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP mm/pagemap: add PAGE_IS_ACCESSED for RWP tracking userfaultfd: add UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC for async fault resolution userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_SET_MODE for runtime sync/async toggle selftests/mm: add userfaultfd RWP tests Documentation/userfaultfd: document RWP working set tracking Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 13 +- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 236 +++++- Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 1 + arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 8 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 47 +- arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 1 + arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 8 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 + arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h | 12 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 59 +- arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 + arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 12 +- arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 56 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 16 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 108 ++- include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h | 18 +- include/asm-generic/pgtable_uffd.h | 32 +- include/linux/huge_mm.h | 7 + include/linux/leafops.h | 4 +- include/linux/mm.h | 46 +- include/linux/mm_inline.h | 4 +- include/linux/pgtable.h | 32 +- include/linux/swapops.h | 4 +- include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 78 +- include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 2 +- include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 7 + include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 54 +- init/Kconfig | 8 + mm/Kconfig | 9 + mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 4 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 155 +++- mm/hugetlb.c | 158 +++- mm/internal.h | 4 +- mm/khugepaged.c | 40 +- mm/memory.c | 123 ++- mm/migrate.c | 20 +- mm/migrate_device.c | 8 +- mm/mprotect.c | 68 +- mm/mremap.c | 17 +- mm/page_table_check.c | 8 +- mm/rmap.c | 18 +- mm/swapfile.c | 9 +- mm/userfaultfd.c | 378 ++++++++- tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c | 766 +++++++++++++++++++ 51 files changed, 2248 insertions(+), 425 deletions(-) base-commit: 449a5df98f8dffa9b037e3b6838fc5af327df072 -- 2.54.0