Re: [PATCH 6/6] userfaultfd: collapse VM_UFFD_{MISSING,WP,MINOR,RWP} into single VM_UFFD
From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 07:18:59 EST
On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 12:16:32PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> So actually you're increasing by a cacheline and increasing the VMA size by
> 64 bytes, i.e. 1/3, which is unacceptable obviously.
>
> Maybe there's something that can be done with:
>
> /* forced alignments: 1 */
>
> Perhaps? But that looks potentially ugly.
>
I say elsewhere (or think I do) but to highlight - I think probably we could fix
this by putting the flags in the low bits of vm_uffd_state.ctx?
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Cheers, Lorenzo