Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/userfaultfd: don't place zeropages when zeropages are disallowed
From: Peter Xu
Date: Thu Mar 21 2024 - 18:20:40 EST
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 10:59:53PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> s390x must disable shared zeropages for processes running VMs, because
> the VMs could end up making use of "storage keys" or protected
> virtualization, which are incompatible with shared zeropages.
>
> Yet, with userfaultfd it is possible to insert shared zeropages into
> such processes. Let's fallback to simply allocating a fresh zeroed
> anonymous folio and insert that instead.
>
> mm_forbids_zeropage() was introduced in commit 593befa6ab74 ("mm: introduce
> mm_forbids_zeropage function"), briefly before userfaultfd went
> upstream.
>
> Note that we don't want to fail the UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE request like we do
> for hugetlb, it would be rather unexpected. Further, we also
> cannot really indicated "not supported" to user space ahead of time: it
> could be that the MM disallows zeropages after userfaultfd was already
> registered.
>
> Fixes: c1a4de99fada ("userfaultfd: mcopy_atomic|mfill_zeropage: UFFDIO_COPY|UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE preparation")
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Still, a few comments below.
> ---
> mm/userfaultfd.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> index 712160cd41eca..1d1061ccd1dea 100644
> --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -316,6 +316,38 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_copy(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> goto out;
> }
>
> +static int mfill_atomic_pte_zeroed_folio(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> + struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, unsigned long dst_addr)
> +{
> + struct folio *folio;
> + int ret;
nitpick: we can set -ENOMEM here, then
> +
> + folio = vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(dst_vma, dst_addr);
> + if (!folio)
> + return -ENOMEM;
return ret;
> +
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
drop.
> + if (mem_cgroup_charge(folio, dst_vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL))
> + goto out_put;
> +
> + /*
> + * The memory barrier inside __folio_mark_uptodate makes sure that
> + * preceding stores to the page contents become visible before
> + * the set_pte_at() write.
> + */
This comment doesn't apply. We can drop it.
Thanks,
> + __folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> +
> + ret = mfill_atomic_install_pte(dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr,
> + &folio->page, true, 0);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out_put;
> +
> + return 0;
> +out_put:
> + folio_put(folio);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static int mfill_atomic_pte_zeropage(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
> unsigned long dst_addr)
> @@ -324,6 +356,9 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_zeropage(pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> spinlock_t *ptl;
> int ret;
>
> + if (mm_forbids_zeropage(dst_vma->mm))
> + return mfill_atomic_pte_zeroed_folio(dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr);
> +
> _dst_pte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(dst_addr),
> dst_vma->vm_page_prot));
> ret = -EAGAIN;
> --
> 2.43.2
>
--
Peter Xu