+ mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch added to mm-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove VM_FAULT_WRITE
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: remove VM_FAULT_WRITE
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:19:27 +0200

All users -- GUP and KSM -- are gone, let's just remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220930141931.174362-4-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/mm_types.h |    3 ---
 mm/huge_memory.c         |    2 +-
 mm/memory.c              |    9 ++++-----
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-remove-vm_fault_write
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -861,7 +861,6 @@ typedef __bitwise unsigned int vm_fault_
  * @VM_FAULT_OOM:		Out Of Memory
  * @VM_FAULT_SIGBUS:		Bad access
  * @VM_FAULT_MAJOR:		Page read from storage
- * @VM_FAULT_WRITE:		Special case for get_user_pages
  * @VM_FAULT_HWPOISON:		Hit poisoned small page
  * @VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE:	Hit poisoned large page. Index encoded
  *				in upper bits
@@ -882,7 +881,6 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
 	VM_FAULT_OOM            = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000001,
 	VM_FAULT_SIGBUS         = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000002,
 	VM_FAULT_MAJOR          = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000004,
-	VM_FAULT_WRITE          = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000008,
 	VM_FAULT_HWPOISON       = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000010,
 	VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000020,
 	VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV        = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000040,
@@ -908,7 +906,6 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_OOM,                 "OOM" },	\
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_SIGBUS,              "SIGBUS" },	\
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_MAJOR,               "MAJOR" },	\
-	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_WRITE,               "WRITE" },	\
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_HWPOISON,            "HWPOISON" },	\
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE,      "HWPOISON_LARGE" },	\
 	{ (__force unsigned int) VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV,             "SIGSEGV" },	\
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-remove-vm_fault_write
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ reuse:
 		if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry, 1))
 			update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd);
 		spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
-		return VM_FAULT_WRITE;
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 unlock_fallback:
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-remove-vm_fault_write
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -3242,7 +3242,7 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm
 	}
 
 	delayacct_wpcopy_end();
-	return (page_copied && !unshare) ? VM_FAULT_WRITE : 0;
+	return 0;
 oom_free_new:
 	put_page(new_page);
 oom:
@@ -3306,14 +3306,14 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_pfn_shared(struct v
 		return finish_mkwrite_fault(vmf);
 	}
 	wp_page_reuse(vmf);
-	return VM_FAULT_WRITE;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	__releases(vmf->ptl)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
-	vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_WRITE;
+	vm_fault_t ret = 0;
 
 	get_page(vmf->page);
 
@@ -3464,7 +3464,7 @@ reuse:
 			return 0;
 		}
 		wp_page_reuse(vmf);
-		return VM_FAULT_WRITE;
+		return 0;
 	} else if (unshare) {
 		/* No anonymous page -> nothing to do. */
 		pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
@@ -3983,7 +3983,6 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault
 		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
 			pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
 			vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
-			ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
 		}
 		rmap_flags |= RMAP_EXCLUSIVE;
 	}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are

selftests-vm-add-test-to-measure-madv_unmergeable-performance.patch
mm-ksm-simplify-break_ksm-to-not-rely-on-vm_fault_write.patch
mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch
mm-ksm-fix-ksm-cow-breaking-with-userfaultfd-wp-via-fault_flag_unshare.patch
mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma.patch
mm-ksm-convert-break_ksm-to-use-walk_page_range_vma.patch
mm-gup-remove-foll_migration.patch




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