On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:52:38PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote: > With this change, userspace can resolve a minor fault within a > shmem-backed area with a UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl. The semantics for this > match those for hugetlbfs - we look up the existing page in the page > cache, and install a PTE for it. > > This commit introduces a new helper: mcopy_atomic_install_pte. > > Why handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem in mm/userfaultfd.c, instead of in > shmem.c? The existing userfault implementation only relies on shmem.c > for VM_SHARED VMAs. However, minor fault handling / CONTINUE work just > fine for !VM_SHARED VMAs as well. We'd prefer to handle CONTINUE for > shmem in one place, regardless of shared/private (to reduce code > duplication). > > Why add a new mcopy_atomic_install_pte helper? A problem we have with > continue is that shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte() and mcopy_atomic_pte() are > *close* to what we want, but not exactly. We do want to setup the PTEs > in a CONTINUE operation, but we don't want to e.g. allocate a new page, > charge it (e.g. to the shmem inode), manipulate various flags, etc. Also > we have the problem stated above: shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte() and > mcopy_atomic_pte() both handle one-half of the problem (shared / > private) continue cares about. So, introduce mcontinue_atomic_pte(), to > handle all of the shmem continue cases. Introduce the helper so it > doesn't duplicate code with mcopy_atomic_pte(). > > In a future commit, shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte() will also be modified to > use this new helper. However, since this is a bigger refactor, it seems > most clear to do it as a separate change. > > Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Peter Xu
