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From:   Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/6] userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 04:26:56PM -0800, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> This ioctl is how userspace ought to resolve "minor" userfaults. The
> idea is, userspace is notified that a minor fault has occurred. It might
> change the contents of the page using its second non-UFFD mapping, or
> not. Then, it calls UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have ensured
> the page contents are correct, carry on setting up the mapping".
> 
> Note that it doesn't make much sense to use UFFDIO_{COPY,ZEROPAGE} for
> MINOR registered VMAs. ZEROPAGE maps the VMA to the zero page; but in
> the minor fault case, we already have some pre-existing underlying page.
> Likewise, UFFDIO_COPY isn't useful if we have a second non-UFFD mapping.
> We'd just use memcpy() or similar instead.
> 
> It turns out hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte() already does very close to what
> we want, if an existing page is provided via `struct page **pagep`. We
> already special-case the behavior a bit for the UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE case, so
> just extend that design: add an enum for the three modes of operation,
> and make the small adjustments needed for the MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE
> case. (Basically, look up the existing page, and avoid adding the
> existing page to the page cache or calling set_page_huge_active() on
> it.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu