Re: [RFC PATCH v2 34/47] hugetlb: userfaultfd: add support for high-granularity UFFDIO_CONTINUE

From: Peter Xu
Date: Fri Dec 23 2022 - 13:39:05 EST


James,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 04:36:50PM +0000, James Houghton wrote:
> + bool use_hgm = uffd_ctx_has_hgm(&dst_vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx) &&
> + mode == MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE;

Do you think in your new version use_hgm can work even for MISSING by
default?

I had a feeling that the major components are ready for that anyway. Then
no matter how HGM is enabled (assuming it'll switch to MADV, or even one
can just register with MISSING+MINOR and enable the uffd HGM feature), an
existing MISSING only app can easily switch to HGM support if it's on huge
pages.

Thanks,

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Peter Xu