Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: only compile UFFD helpers if config enabled

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 16:04:38 EST


On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Axel Rasmussen wrote:

> For background, mm/userfaultfd.c provides a general mcopy_atomic
> implementation. But some types of memory (e.g., hugetlb and shmem) need
> a slightly different implementation, so they provide their own helpers
> for this. In other words, userfaultfd is the only caller of this
> function.
>
> This patch achieves two things:
>
> 1. Don't spend time compiling code which will end up never being
> referenced anyway (a small build time optimization).
>
> 2. In future patches (e.g. [1]), we plan to extend the signature of
> these helpers with UFFD-specific state (e.g., enums or structs defined
> conditionally in userfaultfd_k.h). Once this happens, this patch will be
> needed to avoid build errors (or, we'd need to define more UFFD-only
> stuff unconditionally, which seems messier to me).
>
> Peter Xu suggested this be sent as a standalone patch, in the mailing
> list discussion for [1].
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=424091
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 4 ++++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

Hi Axel, please also do the same to mm/shmem.c (perhaps you missed
it because I did that long ago to our internal copy of mm/shmem.c).
But please also comment the endifs
#endif /* CONFIG_USERFAULTFD */
to help find one's way around them.

I see you've done include/linux/hugetlb.h: okay, that's not necessary,
but a matter of taste; up to you whether to do include/linux/shmem_fs.h.

Thanks,
Hugh

>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index ebca2ef02212..749701b5c153 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -134,11 +134,13 @@ void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void);
> unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void);
> vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, unsigned int flags);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, pte_t *dst_pte,
> struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
> unsigned long dst_addr,
> unsigned long src_addr,
> struct page **pagep);
> +#endif
> int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> vm_flags_t vm_flags);
> @@ -308,6 +310,7 @@ static inline void hugetlb_free_pgd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
> BUG();
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> static inline int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
> pte_t *dst_pte,
> struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
> @@ -318,6 +321,7 @@ static inline int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
> BUG();
> return 0;
> }
> +#endif
>
> static inline pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> unsigned long sz)
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 18f6ee317900..821bfa9c0c80 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -4615,6 +4615,7 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
> /*
> * Used by userfaultfd UFFDIO_COPY. Based on mcopy_atomic_pte with
> * modifications for huge pages.
> @@ -4745,6 +4746,7 @@ int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
> put_page(page);
> goto out;
> }
> +#endif
>
> long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
> --
> 2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog