linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v8 17/56] x86/fault: Add support to handle the RMP fault for user address

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 08:21:17 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v8 17/56] x86/fault: Add support to handle the RMP
 fault for user address

On 2/20/23 10:38, Michael Roth wrote:
> +static int handle_split_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> +	__split_huge_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->pmd, vmf->address, false, NULL);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * By the time we get here, we already hold the mm semaphore
>   *
> @@ -5078,6 +5084,10 @@ static vm_fault_t __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  				pmd_migration_entry_wait(mm, vmf.pmd);
>  			return 0;
>  		}
> +
> +		if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_PAGE_SPLIT)
> +			return handle_split_page_fault(&vmf);

I asked this long ago, but how do you prevent these faults from
occurring on hugetlbfs mappings that can't be split?