* [PATCH 0/3] Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios
@ 2026-07-15 11:18 Dev Jain
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From: Dev Jain @ 2026-07-15 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david, ljs
Cc: Dev Jain, liam, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, kasong, qi.zheng,
shakeel.butt, baohua, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, riel, harry, jannh, lance.yang, ryan.roberts,
anshuman.khandual
Currently, batched unmapping is supported if:
1) folio is a file folio, not belonging to uffd-wp VMA
2) folio is anonymous and not swapbacked (lazyfree), not belonging to
uffd-wp VMA
So the cases which are not supported are
1) folio belonging to uffd-wp VMA
2) folio is anonymous and swapbacked
It is easy to see that this adds a lot of cognitive load while reading
try_to_unmap_one - we need to remember throughout whether nr_pages == 1
or > 1.
The uffd-wp handling in try_to_unmap_one is regarding preserving the
uffd-wp state for file folios via pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed (for anon
folio, we handle that while constructing the swap pte).
Stop special casing on uffd-wp VMAs by simply adding batching support
to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed.
---
This is a split from:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260526063635.61721-1-dev.jain@arm.com/
mm-selftests pass.
I have based this on mm-new since my try_to_unmap_one refactoring changes
weren't there in mm-unstable yet. But I suspect this series wouldn't
have conflicted there, or conflicted trivially.
mm-new currently has Kiryl's uffd-rwp series, which confuses me about
the terminology followed by my patchset (and the existing functions):
shall I call it uffd-wp bit or uffd bit?
Dev Jain (3):
mm/memory: move pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() into memory.c
mm/memory: batch set uffd-wp markers during zapping
mm/rmap: batch unmap file folios belonging to uffd-wp VMAs
include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 53 ------------------------
mm/memory.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
mm/rmap.c | 6 +--
4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH 1/3] mm/memory: move pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() into memory.c
2026-07-15 11:18 [PATCH 0/3] Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios Dev Jain
@ 2026-07-15 11:18 ` Dev Jain
2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory: batch set uffd-wp markers during zapping Dev Jain
2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/rmap: batch unmap file folios belonging to uffd-wp VMAs Dev Jain
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From: Dev Jain @ 2026-07-15 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david, ljs
Cc: Dev Jain, liam, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, kasong, qi.zheng,
shakeel.butt, baohua, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, riel, harry, jannh, lance.yang, ryan.roberts,
anshuman.khandual
pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() has grown too large for mm_inline.h.
Move it to memory.c.
While at it, convert the comment to kerneldoc and rename the local
arguments from pte/pteval to ptep/pte so the pointer and pte value
are easier to distinguish.
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 53 ----------------------------------
mm/memory.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 550fb92957d18..a71341c44655e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -5406,4 +5406,6 @@ void map_anon_folio_pte_nopf(struct folio *folio, pte_t *pte,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
bool uffd_wp);
+bool pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte);
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index b5c4dc0f3fe32..621c8653d8f7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -566,59 +566,6 @@ static inline pte_marker copy_pte_marker(
return dstm;
}
-/*
- * If this pte is wr-protected by uffd-wp in any form, arm the special pte to
- * replace a none pte. NOTE! This should only be called when *pte is already
- * cleared so we will never accidentally replace something valuable. Meanwhile
- * none pte also means we are not demoting the pte so tlb flushed is not needed.
- * E.g., when pte cleared the caller should have taken care of the tlb flush.
- *
- * Must be called with pgtable lock held so that no thread will see the none
- * pte, and if they see it, they'll fault and serialize at the pgtable lock.
- *
- * Returns true if an uffd-wp pte was installed, false otherwise.
- */
-static inline bool
-pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
- pte_t *pte, pte_t pteval)
-{
- bool arm_uffd_pte = false;
-
- if (!uffd_supports_wp_marker())
- return false;
-
- /* The current status of the pte should be "cleared" before calling */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!pte_none(ptep_get(pte)));
-
- /*
- * NOTE: userfaultfd_wp_unpopulated() doesn't need this whole
- * thing, because when zapping either it means it's dropping the
- * page, or in TTU where the present pte will be quickly replaced
- * with a swap pte. There's no way of leaking the bit.
- */
- if (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !userfaultfd_wp(vma))
- return false;
-
- /* A uffd-wp wr-protected normal pte */
- if (unlikely(pte_present(pteval) && pte_uffd(pteval)))
- arm_uffd_pte = true;
-
- /*
- * A uffd-wp wr-protected swap pte. Note: this should even cover an
- * existing pte marker with uffd-wp bit set.
- */
- if (unlikely(pte_swp_uffd_any(pteval)))
- arm_uffd_pte = true;
-
- if (unlikely(arm_uffd_pte)) {
- set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
- make_pte_marker(PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP));
- return true;
- }
-
- return false;
-}
-
static inline bool vma_has_recency(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ))
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d5e87624f6920..98b3ace15cef2 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1675,6 +1675,66 @@ static inline bool zap_drop_markers(struct zap_details *details)
return details->zap_flags & ZAP_FLAG_DROP_MARKER;
}
+/**
+ * pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed - install uffd-wp marker after clearing a PTE
+ * @vma: The VMA the page is mapped into.
+ * @addr: Address the page is mapped at.
+ * @ptep: Page table pointer for this entry.
+ * @pte: Old value of the entry pointed to by @ptep.
+ *
+ * If the PTE was write-protected by uffd-wp in any form, arm a special PTE
+ * to replace a none PTE. NOTE! This should only be called when the PTE is
+ * already cleared so we will never accidentally replace something valuable.
+ * Meanwhile none PTEs also mean we are not demoting the PTE so a TLB flush is
+ * not needed. E.g., when the PTE was cleared, the caller should have taken care
+ * of the TLB flush.
+ *
+ * Must be called with the page table lock held so that no thread will see the
+ * none PTE, and if they see it, they'll fault and serialize at the page table
+ * lock.
+ *
+ * Returns true if an uffd-wp PTE was installed, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+ bool arm_uffd_pte = false;
+
+ if (!uffd_supports_wp_marker())
+ return false;
+
+ /* The current status of the pte should be "cleared" before calling */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!pte_none(ptep_get(ptep)));
+
+ /*
+ * NOTE: userfaultfd_wp_unpopulated() doesn't need this whole
+ * thing, because when zapping either it means it's dropping the
+ * page, or in TTU where the present pte will be quickly replaced
+ * with a swap pte. There's no way of leaking the bit.
+ */
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !userfaultfd_wp(vma))
+ return false;
+
+ /* A uffd-wp write-protected normal pte */
+ if (unlikely(pte_present(pte) && pte_uffd(pte)))
+ arm_uffd_pte = true;
+
+ /*
+ * A uffd-wp write-protected swap pte. Note: this should even cover an
+ * existing pte marker with uffd-wp bit set.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(pte_swp_uffd_any(pte)))
+ arm_uffd_pte = true;
+
+ if (unlikely(arm_uffd_pte)) {
+ set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep,
+ make_pte_marker(PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP));
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
+
/*
* This function makes sure that we'll replace the none pte with an uffd-wp
* swap special pte marker when necessary. Must be with the pgtable lock held.
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory: batch set uffd-wp markers during zapping
2026-07-15 11:18 [PATCH 0/3] Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios Dev Jain
2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/memory: move pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() into memory.c Dev Jain
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2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/rmap: batch unmap file folios belonging to uffd-wp VMAs Dev Jain
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From: Dev Jain @ 2026-07-15 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david, ljs
Cc: Dev Jain, liam, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, kasong, qi.zheng,
shakeel.butt, baohua, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, riel, harry, jannh, lance.yang, ryan.roberts,
anshuman.khandual
Enable batch setting of uffd-wp ptes.
The code paths passing nr > 1 to zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() produce
that nr through either folio_pte_batch or swap_pte_batch, therefore
batching is correct:
1) all ptes belong to the same type of VMA (anonymous or non-anonymous,
wp-armed or non-wp-armed)
2) all ptes being marked with uffd-wp or all being not marked (same is the
case with the pte_swp_uffd_wp_any check)
3) uffd_supports_wp_marker() is independent of the function parameters
Note that we will have to use set_pte_at() in a loop instead of set_ptes()
since the latter cannot handle present->non-present conversion for
nr_pages > 1.
Rename the function to cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes.
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
To handle nonpresent->nonpresent transition in the ptes, we can have a
set_nonpresent_ptes() (in my unmap series) : if !softleaf_has_pfn(), use
set the same pte value to all ptep's in the patch. if softleaf_has_pfn(),
then add a softleaf_next_pfn() to construct the next softleaf, and
pte_next_softleaf() to call softleaf_next_pfn() and preserve the
wp bit, s-d bit, etc from the previous pte.
include/linux/mm.h | 6 +++--
mm/memory.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a71341c44655e..94e0a92bc70b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -5406,6 +5406,8 @@ void map_anon_folio_pte_nopf(struct folio *folio, pte_t *pte,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
bool uffd_wp);
-bool pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte);
+bool cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
+ unsigned long nr_ptes);
+
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 98b3ace15cef2..5d2b567b383d4 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1676,27 +1676,29 @@ static inline bool zap_drop_markers(struct zap_details *details)
}
/**
- * pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed - install uffd-wp marker after clearing a PTE
- * @vma: The VMA the page is mapped into.
- * @addr: Address the page is mapped at.
- * @ptep: Page table pointer for this entry.
+ * cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes - install uffd-wp markers after clearing PTEs
+ * @vma: The VMA the pages are mapped into.
+ * @addr: Address the first page of this batch is mapped at.
+ * @ptep: Page table pointer for the first entry of this batch.
* @pte: Old value of the entry pointed to by @ptep.
+ * @nr_ptes: Number of entries to install.
*
- * If the PTE was write-protected by uffd-wp in any form, arm a special PTE
- * to replace a none PTE. NOTE! This should only be called when the PTE is
- * already cleared so we will never accidentally replace something valuable.
- * Meanwhile none PTEs also mean we are not demoting the PTE so a TLB flush is
- * not needed. E.g., when the PTE was cleared, the caller should have taken care
- * of the TLB flush.
+ * If the PTEs were write-protected by uffd-wp in any form, arm special
+ * PTEs to replace none PTEs. NOTE! This should only be called when the PTEs
+ * are already cleared so we will never accidentally replace something
+ * valuable. Meanwhile none PTEs also mean we are not demoting the PTEs so a
+ * TLB flush is not needed. E.g., when PTEs were cleared, the caller should
+ * have taken care of the TLB flush.
*
- * Must be called with the page table lock held so that no thread will see the
- * none PTE, and if they see it, they'll fault and serialize at the page table
- * lock.
+ * Must be called with the page table lock held so that no thread will see
+ * the none PTEs, and if they see them, they'll fault and serialize at the
+ * page table lock.
*
- * Returns true if an uffd-wp PTE was installed, false otherwise.
+ * Returns true if uffd-wp PTEs were installed, false otherwise.
*/
-bool pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+bool cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
+ unsigned long nr_ptes)
{
bool arm_uffd_pte = false;
@@ -1726,13 +1728,14 @@ bool pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (unlikely(pte_swp_uffd_any(pte)))
arm_uffd_pte = true;
- if (unlikely(arm_uffd_pte)) {
+ if (likely(!arm_uffd_pte))
+ return false;
+
+ for (unsigned long i = 0; i < nr_ptes; ++i, ++ptep, addr += PAGE_SIZE)
set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep,
make_pte_marker(PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP));
- return true;
- }
- return false;
+ return true;
}
/*
@@ -1746,29 +1749,10 @@ zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *pte, int nr,
struct zap_details *details, pte_t pteval)
{
- bool was_installed = false;
-
- if (!uffd_supports_wp_marker())
- return false;
-
- /* Zap on anonymous always means dropping everything */
- if (vma_is_anonymous(vma))
- return false;
-
if (zap_drop_markers(details))
return false;
- for (;;) {
- /* the PFN in the PTE is irrelevant. */
- if (pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(vma, addr, pte, pteval))
- was_installed = true;
- if (--nr == 0)
- break;
- pte++;
- addr += PAGE_SIZE;
- }
-
- return was_installed;
+ return cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(vma, addr, pte, pteval, nr);
}
static __always_inline void zap_present_folio_ptes(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index ad820fe86f7d8..2f938d0ac6953 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* we may want to replace a none pte with a marker pte if
* it's file-backed, so we don't lose the tracking info.
*/
- pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(vma, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
+ cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(vma, address, pvmw.pte, pteval, 1);
/* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
update_hiwater_rss(mm);
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH 3/3] mm/rmap: batch unmap file folios belonging to uffd-wp VMAs
2026-07-15 11:18 [PATCH 0/3] Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios Dev Jain
2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/memory: move pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed() into memory.c Dev Jain
2026-07-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory: batch set uffd-wp markers during zapping Dev Jain
@ 2026-07-15 11:18 ` Dev Jain
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From: Dev Jain @ 2026-07-15 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, david, ljs
Cc: Dev Jain, liam, vbabka, rppt, surenb, mhocko, kasong, qi.zheng,
shakeel.butt, baohua, axelrasmussen, yuanchu, weixugc, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, riel, harry, jannh, lance.yang, ryan.roberts,
anshuman.khandual
Commit a67fe41e214f ("mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios")
extended batched unmapping for file folios. That also required making
install_uffd_wp_pte_if_needed() support batching, but that was left
out for the time being, and correctness was maintained by stopping
batching in case the VMA the folio belongs to is marked uffd-wp.
Now that we have a batched version called cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes,
simply call that. folio_unmap_pte_batch() ensures that the original state
of the ptes is either all uffd or all non-uffd, so we maintain
correctness.
If uffd-wp bit is there, we have the following transitions of ptes
after unmapping, for a file folio:
present -> uffd-wp marker
We must ensure that these ptes are not reprocessed by the while loop -
if the batch length is less than the number of pages in the folio, then
we must skip over this batch.
The page_vma_mapped_walk API ensures this - check_pte() will return true
only if any of [pvmw->pfn, pvmw->pfn + nr_pages) is mapped by the pte.
There is no pfn underlying a uffd-wp marker pte, so check_pte returns
false and we keep skipping until we hit a present entry, which is where
we want to batch from next.
Note that for the uffd-rwp case, we already do not make a uffd marker in
cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes.
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
---
Dropped David's ACK due to the uffd-rwp changes.
mm/rmap.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 2f938d0ac6953..ac88673600fa0 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1965,9 +1965,6 @@ static inline unsigned int folio_unmap_pte_batch(struct folio *folio,
if (pte_unused(pte))
return 1;
- if (userfaultfd_protected(vma))
- return 1;
-
/*
* If unmap fails, we need to restore the ptes. To avoid accidentally
* upgrading write permissions for ptes that were not originally
@@ -2345,7 +2342,8 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* we may want to replace a none pte with a marker pte if
* it's file-backed, so we don't lose the tracking info.
*/
- cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(vma, address, pvmw.pte, pteval, 1);
+ cond_install_uffd_wp_ptes(vma, address, pvmw.pte, pteval,
+ nr_pages);
/* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
update_hiwater_rss(mm);
--
2.43.0
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