Base ====
This series is based on (and therefore should apply cleanly to) the tag "v5.12-rc7-mmots-2021-04-11-20-49", additionally with Peter's selftest cleanup series applied *first*:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1412450/
Changelog =========
v1->v2: - Pick up Reviewed-by's. - Don't swapin page when a minor fault occurs. Notice that it needs to be swapped in, and just immediately fire the minor fault. Let a future CONTINUE deal with swapping in the page. [Peter] - Clarify comment about i_size checks in mm/userfaultfd.c. [Peter] - Only forward declare once (out of #ifdef) in hugetlb.h. [Peter]
Changes since [2]: - Squash the fixes ([2]) in with the original series ([1]). This makes reviewing easier, as we no longer have to sift through deltas undoing what we had done before. [Hugh, Peter] - Modify shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte() to use the new mcopy_atomic_install_ptes() helper, reducing code duplication. [Hugh] - Properly trigger handle_userfault() in the shmem_swapin_page() case. [Hugh] - Use shmem_getpage() instead of find_lock_page() to lookup the existing page in for continue. This properly deals with swapped-out pages. [Hugh] - Unconditionally pte_mkdirty() for anon memory (as before). [Peter] - Don't include userfaultfd_k.h in either hugetlb.h or shmem_fs.h. [Hugh] - Add comment for UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM (to match _HUGETLBFS). [Hugh] - Fix some small cleanup issues (parens, reworded conditionals, reduced plumbing of some parameters, simplify labels/gotos, ...). [Hugh, Peter]
Overview ========
See the series which added minor faults for hugetlbfs [3] for a detailed overview of minor fault handling in general. This series adds the same support for shmem-backed areas.
This series is structured as follows:
- Commits 1 and 2 are cleanups. - Commits 3 and 4 implement the new feature (minor fault handling for shmem). - Commits 5, 6, 7, 8 update the userfaultfd selftest to exercise the feature. - Commit 9 is one final cleanup, modifying an existing code path to re-use a new helper we've introduced. We rely on the selftest to show that this change doesn't break anything.
Use Case ========
In some cases it is useful to have VM memory backed by tmpfs instead of hugetlbfs. So, this feature will be used to support the same VM live migration use case described in my original series.
Additionally, Android folks (Lokesh Gidra lokeshgidra@google.com) hope to optimize the Android Runtime garbage collector using this feature:
"The plan is to use userfaultfd for concurrently compacting the heap. With this feature, the heap can be shared-mapped at another location where the GC-thread(s) could continue the compaction operation without the need to invoke userfault ioctl(UFFDIO_COPY) each time. OTOH, if and when Java threads get faults on the heap, UFFDIO_CONTINUE can be used to resume execution. Furthermore, this feature enables updating references in the 'non-moving' portion of the heap efficiently. Without this feature, uneccessary page copying (ioctl(UFFDIO_COPY)) would be required."
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1388144/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1408161/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@...
Axel Rasmussen (9): userfaultfd/hugetlbfs: avoid including userfaultfd_k.h in hugetlb.h userfaultfd/shmem: combine shmem_{mcopy_atomic,mfill_zeropage}_pte userfaultfd/shmem: support minor fault registration for shmem userfaultfd/shmem: support UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem userfaultfd/selftests: use memfd_create for shmem test type userfaultfd/selftests: create alias mappings in the shmem test userfaultfd/selftests: reinitialize test context in each test userfaultfd/selftests: exercise minor fault handling shmem support userfaultfd/shmem: modify shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte to use install_ptes
fs/userfaultfd.c | 6 +- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 4 +- include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 15 +- include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 5 + include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 7 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + mm/memory.c | 8 +- mm/shmem.c | 112 +++------ mm/userfaultfd.c | 183 ++++++++++----- tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c | 280 +++++++++++++++-------- 10 files changed, 377 insertions(+), 244 deletions(-)
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