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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Don't fault around userfaultfd-registered regions on reads
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:37:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2012021410260.4989@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X8bZk3jTGU8QyJWc@redhat.com>

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> Any suggestions on how to have the per-vaddr per-mm _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit
> survive the pte invalidates in a way that remains associated to a
> certain vaddr in a single mm (so it can shoot itself in the foot if it
> wants, but it can't interfere with all other mm sharing the shmem
> file) would be welcome...

I think it has to be a new variety of swap-like non_swap_entry() pte,
see include/linux/swapops.h.  Anything else would be more troublesome.

Search for non_swap_entry and for migration_entry, to find places that 
might need to learn about this new variety.

IIUC you only need a single value, no need to carve out another whole
swp_type: could probably be swp_offset 0 of any swp_type other than 0.

Note that fork's copy_page_range() does not "copy ptes where a page
fault will fill them correctly", so would in effect put a pte_none
into the child where the parent has this uffd_wp entry.  I don't know
anything about uffd versus fork, whether that would pose a problem.

Hugh


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 23:06 [PATCH v2] mm: Don't fault around userfaultfd-registered regions on reads Peter Xu
2020-12-01  9:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-12-01 12:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-01 22:30   ` Peter Xu
2020-12-02  0:02     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2020-12-02 22:37       ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2020-12-02 23:41         ` Peter Xu
2020-12-03  5:36           ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-03 18:02             ` Peter Xu
2020-12-03 19:44               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2020-12-04  2:30                 ` Peter Xu
2020-12-04  4:10                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2020-12-04  5:59                     ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-04 16:50                       ` Peter Xu
2020-12-04 18:12                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2020-12-04 19:23                       ` Peter Xu
2020-12-04 19:37                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2020-12-04 20:21                           ` Peter Xu

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