Axel Rasmussen d672123ec4 BACKPORT: FROMGIT: userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem
Patch series "userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem", v2.

Overview
========

See my original series [1] for a detailed overview of minor fault handling
in general.  The feature in this series works exactly like the hugetblfs
version (from userspace's perspective).

I'm sending this as a separate series because:

- The original minor fault handling series has a full set of R-Bs, and seems
  close to being merged. So, it seems reasonable to start looking at this next
  step, which extends the basic functionality.

- shmem is different enough that this series may require some additional work
  before it's ready, and I don't want to delay the original series
  unnecessarily by bundling them together.

Use Case
========

In some cases it is useful to have VM memory backed by tmpfs instead of
hugetlbfs.  So, this feature will be used to support the same VM live
migration use case described in my original series.

Additionally, Android folks (Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>) hope
to optimize the Android Runtime garbage collector using this feature:

"The plan is to use userfaultfd for concurrently compacting the heap.
With this feature, the heap can be shared-mapped at another location where
the GC-thread(s) could continue the compaction operation without the need
to invoke userfault ioctl(UFFDIO_COPY) each time.  OTOH, if and when Java
threads get faults on the heap, UFFDIO_CONTINUE can be used to resume
execution.  Furthermore, this feature enables updating references in the
'non-moving' portion of the heap efficiently.  Without this feature,
uneccessary page copying (ioctl(UFFDIO_COPY)) would be required."

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@google.com/T/#t

This patch (of 5):

Modify the userfaultfd register API to allow registering shmem VMAs in
minor mode.  Modify the shmem mcopy implementation to support
UFFDIO_CONTINUE in order to resolve such faults.

Combine the shmem mcopy handler functions into a single
shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte, which takes a mode parameter.  This matches how
the hugetlbfs implementation is structured, and lets us remove a good
chunk of boilerplate.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302000133.272579-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302000133.272579-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

(cherry picked from commit 4cc6e15679966aa49afc5b114c3c83ba0ac39b05
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git akpm)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1388146/

Conflicts:
	mm/shmem.c

(1. Manual rebase
 2. Enclosed shmem_copy_atomic_pte() with CONFIG_USERFAULTFD to avoid
 compile erros when USERFAULTFD is not enabled.)

Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Bug: 160737021
Bug: 169683130
Change-Id: Idcd822b2a124a089121b9ad8c65061f6979126ec
2021-04-09 15:36:00 -07:00
2021-04-02 15:25:50 +02:00
2021-04-09 09:29:17 +02:00

How do I submit patches to Android Common Kernels

  1. BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

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  2. LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with kernel-team@android.com. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.

Common Kernel patch requirements

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        Bug: 135791357
        Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
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        (cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
        [joe: Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
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        This is the detailed description of the important patch

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  • then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
        FROMGIT: important patch from upstream

        This is the detailed description of the important patch

        Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>

        Bug: 135791357
        (cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
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