BACKPORT: FROMGIT: userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem
Patch series "userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem", v2.
Overview
========
See my original series [1] for a detailed overview of minor fault handling
in general. The feature in this series works exactly like the hugetblfs
version (from userspace's perspective).
I'm sending this as a separate series because:
- The original minor fault handling series has a full set of R-Bs, and seems
close to being merged. So, it seems reasonable to start looking at this next
step, which extends the basic functionality.
- shmem is different enough that this series may require some additional work
before it's ready, and I don't want to delay the original series
unnecessarily by bundling them together.
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/linux-fsdevel/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@google.com/T/#t
This patch (of 5):
Modify the userfaultfd register API to allow registering shmem VMAs in
minor mode. Modify the shmem mcopy implementation to support
UFFDIO_CONTINUE in order to resolve such faults.
Combine the shmem mcopy handler functions into a single
shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte, which takes a mode parameter. This matches how
the hugetlbfs implementation is structured, and lets us remove a good
chunk of boilerplate.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302000133.272579-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302000133.272579-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
(cherry picked from commit 4cc6e15679966aa49afc5b114c3c83ba0ac39b05
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git akpm)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1388146/
Conflicts: include/linux/shmem_fs.h
mm/shmem.c
mm/userfaultfd.c
(1. write-protect related conflicts, rebased manually
2. Enclose shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte() with CONFIG_USERFAULTFD to avoid
compile errors when USERFAULTFD is not enabled.)
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Bug: 160737021
Bug: 169683130
Change-Id: Idcd822b2a124a089121b9ad8c65061f6979126ec
6 files changed