From: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@gmail.com>,
Alban Crequy <albancrequy@microsoft.com>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] mm/process_vm_access: pidfd and nowait support for process_vm_readv/writev
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:28:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428122826.339550-1-alban.crequy@gmail.com> (raw)
This adds two flags to process_vm_readv/writev:
- PROCESS_VM_PIDFD: refer to the remote process via PID file descriptor
instead of PID.
- PROCESS_VM_NOWAIT: do not block on IO if the memory access causes a
page fault.
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260408145436.843538-1-alban.crequy@gmail.com/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251118132348.2415603-1-alban.crequy@gmail.com/
Sashiko review of v2: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408145436.843538-1-alban.crequy@gmail.com
Changes since v2:
- Fix ERR_PTR handling for pidfd_get_task(): use IS_ERR()/PTR_ERR()
for the pidfd path, matching process_madvise() (Usama Arif, Sashiko)
- Add selftest for invalid pidfd (David Hildenbrand)
- Add selftest for invalid pid
- Remove hardcoded __NR_pidfd_open fallback, use <sys/syscall.h> (Sashiko)
- SKIP pidfd tests on kernels without pidfd_open (ENOSYS) (Sashiko)
- SKIP userfaultfd tests when unprivileged userfaultfd is disabled (EPERM) (Sashiko)
- Fault in test_data before NOWAIT tests to ensure page is resident (Sashiko)
- Add ksft_process_vm_readv.sh wrapper and run_vmtests.sh entry
so the test runs in CI
- Rebase onto v7.1-rc1
Not addressed:
- uffd handler timeout causing test hang: kselftest_harness forks each
test with a 30-second timeout, so an infinite hang cannot occur (Sashiko)
- 64-bit process reading 32-bit process high addresses: pre-existing
concern in the existing process_vm_readv code, not introduced by this
patch (David Laight)
Alban Crequy (2):
mm/process_vm_access: pidfd and nowait support for
process_vm_readv/writev
selftests/mm: add tests for process_vm_readv flags
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/process_vm.h | 9 +
mm/process_vm_access.c | 34 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 2 +
.../selftests/mm/ksft_process_vm_readv.sh | 4 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/process_vm_readv.c | 421 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 4 +
7 files changed, 466 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/process_vm.h
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksft_process_vm_readv.sh
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/process_vm_readv.c
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2.45.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 12:28 Alban Crequy [this message]
2026-04-28 12:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mm/process_vm_access: pidfd and nowait support for process_vm_readv/writev Alban Crequy
2026-04-28 20:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-29 6:41 ` Christian Brauner
2026-04-29 6:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-28 12:28 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/mm: add tests for process_vm_readv flags Alban Crequy
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