From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] userfaultfd: disable huge PMD sharing for MINOR registered VMAs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:59:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210121185928.GF260413@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210115190451.3135416-7-axelrasmussen@google.com>
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:04:48AM -0800, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> As the comment says: for the MINOR fault use case, although the page
> might be present and populated in the other (non-UFFD-registered) half
> of the shared mapping, it may be out of date, and we explicitly want
> userspace to get a minor fault so it can check and potentially update
> the page's contents.
>
> Huge PMD sharing would prevent these faults from occurring for
> suitably aligned areas, so disable it upon UFFD registration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 19:04 [PATCH 0/9] userfaultfd: add minor fault handling Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] hugetlb: Pass vma into huge_pte_alloc() Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Forbid huge pmd sharing when uffd enabled Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 18:52 ` Peter Xu
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm/hugetlb: Move flush_hugetlb_tlb_range() into hugetlb.h Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Unshare all pmds for hugetlbfs when register wp Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 18:49 ` Peter Xu
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 6/9] userfaultfd: disable huge PMD sharing for MINOR registered VMAs Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 18:59 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 22:46 ` Peter Xu
2021-01-21 23:46 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] userfaultfd: update documentation to describe minor fault handling Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 19:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] userfaultfd/selftests: add test exercising " Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 19:12 ` [PATCH 0/9] userfaultfd: add " Peter Xu
2021-01-21 22:13 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-21 22:37 ` Peter Xu
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