From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@amazon.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/4] userfaultfd, guest_memfd: support userfault minor mode in guest_memfd
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:46:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251117114631.2029447-4-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251117114631.2029447-1-rppt@kernel.org>
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
* Export handle_userfault() for KVM module so that fault() handler in
guest_memfd would be able to notify userspace about page faults in its
address space.
* Implement get_pagecache_folio() for guest_memfd.
* And finally, introduce UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_GENERIC that will allow
using userfaultfd minor mode with memory types other than shmem and
hugetlb provided they are allowed to call handle_userfault() and
implement get_pagecache_folio().
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
fs/userfaultfd.c | 4 +++-
include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 8 +++++++-
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 54c6cc7fe9c6..964fa2662d5c 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason)
out:
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(handle_userfault, "kvm");
static void userfaultfd_event_wait_completion(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
struct userfaultfd_wait_queue *ewq)
@@ -1978,7 +1979,8 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
uffdio_api.features = UFFD_API_FEATURES;
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR
uffdio_api.features &=
- ~(UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS | UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM);
+ ~(UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS | UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM |
+ UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_GENERIC);
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
uffdio_api.features &= ~UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
index 2841e4ea8f2c..c5cbd4a5a26e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED | \
UFFD_FEATURE_POISON | \
UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC | \
- UFFD_FEATURE_MOVE)
+ UFFD_FEATURE_MOVE | \
+ UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_GENERIC)
#define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \
((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \
(__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \
@@ -210,6 +211,10 @@ struct uffdio_api {
* UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM indicates the same support as
* UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS, but for shmem-backed pages instead.
*
+ * UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_GENERIC indicates that minor faults can be
+ * intercepted for file-backed memory in case subsystem backing this
+ * memory supports it.
+ *
* UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS indicates that the exact address of page
* faults would be provided and the offset within the page would not be
* masked.
@@ -248,6 +253,7 @@ struct uffdio_api {
#define UFFD_FEATURE_POISON (1<<14)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC (1<<15)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_MOVE (1<<16)
+#define UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_GENERIC (1<<17)
__u64 features;
__u64 ioctls;
diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index fbca8c0972da..5e3c63307fdf 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
#include "kvm_mm.h"
@@ -369,6 +370,12 @@ static vm_fault_t kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return vmf_error(err);
}
+ if (userfaultfd_minor(vmf->vma)) {
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ return handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MINOR);
+ }
+
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_large(folio))) {
ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
goto out_folio;
@@ -390,8 +397,31 @@ static vm_fault_t kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return ret;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+static struct folio *kvm_gmem_get_pagecache_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ pgoff_t pgoff)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
+ struct folio *folio;
+
+ folio = kvm_gmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff);
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio))
+ return folio;
+
+ if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
+ clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0));
+ kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(folio);
+ }
+
+ return folio;
+}
+#endif
+
static const struct vm_operations_struct kvm_gmem_vm_ops = {
.fault = kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping,
+#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+ .get_pagecache_folio = kvm_gmem_get_pagecache_folio,
+#endif
};
static int kvm_gmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-17 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-17 11:46 [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 11:46 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 17:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-17 11:46 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 17:08 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-21 11:52 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 11:46 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2025-11-18 16:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] userfaultfd, guest_memfd: support userfault minor mode in guest_memfd David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-11-21 11:59 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 11:46 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2025-11-17 17:55 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] mm, kvm: add guest_memfd support for uffd minor faults Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-17 19:39 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-19 17:35 ` Nikita Kalyazin
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