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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	 Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	 Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	 Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
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	 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] userfaultfd: decouple uffd mode from VMA flags
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:17:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260823-uffd-vm-flags-v1-v1-0-3086981b33cf@kernel.org> (raw)

Currently userfault related VMA flags have multiple meanings:
* identify VMAs that are registered with userfaultfd
* and also how exactly VMA is registered with uffd
* and also communicate kind of user fault between the page fault handler
  and handle_userfault()

Introduce an enum for user fault reasons and move the registration mode
into per VMA vm_uffd_state structure today known as vm_userfaultfd_ctx.

---
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (6):
      mm/gup: move gup_can_follow_protnone() to gup.c
      userfaultfd: constify VMA parameter of userfaultfd_*() helpers
      userfaultfd: use userfaultfd_*() helpers instead of open coded flag tests
      userfaultfd: rename vm_userfaultfd_ctx to vm_uffd_state
      userfaultfd: decouple fault reason from VMA flags
      userfaultfd: collapse VM_UFFD_{MISSING,WP,MINOR,RWP} into single VM_UFFD

 Documentation/mm/process_addrs.rst |   4 +-
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                 |  18 +--
 include/linux/mm.h                 | 105 +++--------------
 include/linux/mm_types.h           |  11 +-
 include/linux/pgtable.h            |   4 +-
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h      | 155 ++++++++++++++-----------
 include/trace/events/mmflags.h     |  17 +--
 include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h   |   6 +-
 mm/gup.c                           |  39 +++++++
 mm/huge_memory.c                   |   6 +-
 mm/hugetlb.c                       |  12 +-
 mm/khugepaged.c                    |   2 +-
 mm/memory.c                        |  16 +--
 mm/mprotect.c                      |   2 +-
 mm/mremap.c                        |   4 +-
 mm/shmem.c                         |   6 +-
 mm/userfaultfd.c                   | 225 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 mm/vma.c                           |   4 +-
 mm/vma.h                           |   6 +-
 mm/vma_init.c                      |   4 +-
 tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h    |  20 ++--
 tools/testing/vma/include/stubs.h  |   6 +-
 22 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 349 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 4b2ae13f3393ef4b4bce0021e8762790354f369f
change-id: 20260823-uffd-vm-flags-v1-ee3e131b381d

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-23 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-23 12:17 Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/gup: move gup_can_follow_protnone() to gup.c Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-23 21:03   ` Barry Song
2026-08-24 14:42   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-24 14:59   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25  2:03   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] userfaultfd: constify VMA parameter of userfaultfd_*() helpers Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-23 21:03   ` Barry Song
2026-08-24 15:03   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25  2:03   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] userfaultfd: use userfaultfd_*() helpers instead of open coded flag tests Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-23 21:14   ` Barry Song
2026-08-24 15:10   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] userfaultfd: rename vm_userfaultfd_ctx to vm_uffd_state Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-24 14:43   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-24 15:42   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] userfaultfd: decouple fault reason from VMA flags Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-24  8:12   ` Muchun Song
2026-08-24 14:46   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-24 16:28   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] userfaultfd: collapse VM_UFFD_{MISSING,WP,MINOR,RWP} into single VM_UFFD Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-24  7:11   ` Lance Yang
2026-08-24  8:17     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-08-24  8:27       ` Lance Yang

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