Re: [PATCH V5 0/3] riscv: mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Sun Mar 30 2025 - 09:52:09 EST


Hi Chunyan,

On 13/11/2024 10:58, Chunyan Zhang wrote:
This patchset adds soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking
support for RISC-V.

As described in the patches, we are trying to utilize only one free PTE
bit(9) to support three kernel features (devmap, soft-dirty, uffd-wp).
Users cannot have them supported at the same time (have to select
one when building the kernel).

This patchset has been tested with:
1) The kselftest mm suite in which soft-dirty, madv_populate,
test_unmerge_uffd_wp, and uffd-unit-tests run and pass, and no regressions
are observed in any of the other tests.

2) CRIU:
- 'criu check --feature mem_dirty_track' returns supported;
- incremental_dumps[1] and simple_loop [2] dump and restores work fine;
- zdtm test suite can run under host mode.

This patchset applies on top of v6.12-rc7.

V5:
- Fixed typos and corrected some words in Kconfig and commit message;
- Removed pte_wrprotect() from pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(), this is a copy-paste error;
- Added Alex's Reviewed-by tag in patch 2.

V4:
- Added bit(4) descriptions into "Format of swap PTE".

V3:
- Fixed the issue reported by kernel test irobot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>.

V1 -> V2:
- Add uffd-wp supported;
- Make soft-dirty uffd-wp and devmap mutually exclusive which all use the same PTE bit;
- Add test results of CRIU in the cover-letter.

[1] https://www.criu.org/Incremental_dumps
[2] https://asciinema.org/a/232445

Chunyan Zhang (3):
riscv: mm: Prepare for reusing PTE RSW bit(9)
riscv: mm: Add soft-dirty page tracking support
riscv: mm: Add uffd write-protect support

arch/riscv/Kconfig | 34 ++++++-
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h | 2 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h | 31 ++++++
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


As mentioned by Deepak, there is a new proposed extension Svrsw60t59b which will free 2 more bits. It would help if you can come up with a new version of this patchset using this new extension, would you mind working on this? If not possible, let's discuss how I can help.

Thanks,

Alex