Re: [PATCH v2 08/15] shmem, userfaultfd: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE

James Houghton
2026-03-26T23:44:05Z

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 9:19 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
>
> When userspace resolves a page fault in a shmem VMA with UFFDIO_CONTINUE
> it needs to get a folio that already exists in the pagecache backing
> that VMA.
>
> Instead of using shmem_get_folio() for that, add a get_folio_noalloc()
> method to 'struct vm_uffd_ops' that will return a folio if it exists in
> the VMA's pagecache at given pgoff.
>
> Implement get_folio_noalloc() method for shmem and slightly refactor
> userfaultfd's mfill_get_vma() and mfill_atomic_pte_continue() to support
> this new API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

I found myself asking why HugeTLB wasn't included here; it's because
we call into hugetlb_mfill_atomic_pte() pretty early. It would be nice
to have HugeTLB implement get_folio_noalloc() and use the same path as
shmem, but we don't have to do that now.

Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>

> ---
> include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 7 +++++++
> mm/shmem.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> mm/userfaultfd.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
> index 56e85ab166c7..66dfc3c164e6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
> +++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ extern vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason);
> struct vm_uffd_ops {
> /* Checks if a VMA can support userfaultfd */
> bool (*can_userfault)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags);
> + /*
> + * Called to resolve UFFDIO_CONTINUE request.
> + * Should return the folio found at pgoff in the VMA's pagecache if it
> + * exists or ERR_PTR otherwise.
> + * The returned folio is locked and with reference held.
> + */
> + struct folio *(*get_folio_noalloc)(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff);
> };
>
> /* A combined operation mode + behavior flags. */
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index f2a25805b9bf..7bd887b64f62 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -3295,13 +3295,26 @@ int shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static struct folio *shmem_get_folio_noalloc(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff)
> +{
> + struct folio *folio;
> + int err;
> +
> + err = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
> + if (err)
> + return ERR_PTR(err);
> +
> + return folio;
> +}
> +
> static bool shmem_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
> {
> return true;
> }
>
> static const struct vm_uffd_ops shmem_uffd_ops = {
> - .can_userfault = shmem_can_userfault,
> + .can_userfault = shmem_can_userfault,
> + .get_folio_noalloc = shmem_get_folio_noalloc,
> };
> #endif /* CONFIG_USERFAULTFD */
>
> diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> index b55d4a8d88cc..98ade14eaa5b 100644
> --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static int mfill_get_vma(struct mfill_state *state)
> struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = state->ctx;
> uffd_flags_t flags = state->flags;
> struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma;
> + const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops;
> int err;
>
> /*
> @@ -231,10 +232,12 @@ static int mfill_get_vma(struct mfill_state *state)
> if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(dst_vma))
> goto out;
>
> - if (!vma_is_anonymous(dst_vma) && !vma_is_shmem(dst_vma))
> + ops = vma_uffd_ops(dst_vma);
> + if (!ops)
> goto out_unlock;
> - if (!vma_is_shmem(dst_vma) &&
> - uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE))
> +
> + if (uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE) &&
> + !ops->get_folio_noalloc)
> goto out_unlock;
>
> out:
> @@ -577,6 +580,7 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_zeropage(struct mfill_state *state)
> static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
> {
> struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma = state->vma;
> + const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(dst_vma);
> unsigned long dst_addr = state->dst_addr;
> pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr);
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(dst_vma->vm_file);
> @@ -586,16 +590,13 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
> struct page *page;
> int ret;
>
> - ret = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
> + if (!ops)
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;

Perhaps WARN_ON_ONCE(!ops)?

> +
> + folio = ops->get_folio_noalloc(inode, pgoff);
> /* Our caller expects us to return -EFAULT if we failed to find folio */
> - if (ret == -ENOENT)
> - ret = -EFAULT;
> - if (ret)
> - goto out;
> - if (!folio) {
> - ret = -EFAULT;
> - goto out;
> - }
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio))
> + return -EFAULT;
>
> page = folio_file_page(folio, pgoff);
> if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
> @@ -609,13 +610,12 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
> goto out_release;
>
> folio_unlock(folio);
> - ret = 0;
> -out:
> - return ret;
> + return 0;
> +
> out_release:
> folio_unlock(folio);
> folio_put(folio);
> - goto out;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> /* Handles UFFDIO_POISON for all non-hugetlb VMAs. */
> --
> 2.51.0
>