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Message-ID: <20260127192936.1250096-9-rppt@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:29:27 +0200
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@...zon.com>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 08/17] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE

From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@...nel.org>

When userspace resolves a page fault in a shmem VMA with UFFDIO_CONTINUE
it needs to get a folio that already exists in the pagecache backing
that VMA.

Instead of using shmem_get_folio() for that, add a get_folio_noalloc()
method to 'struct vm_uffd_ops' that will return a folio if it exists in
the VMA's pagecache at given pgoff.

Implement get_folio_noalloc() method for shmem and slightly refactor
userfaultfd's mfill_get_vma() and mfill_atomic_pte_continue() to support
this new API.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h |  7 +++++++
 mm/shmem.c                    | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 mm/userfaultfd.c              | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
index 56e85ab166c7..66dfc3c164e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ extern vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason);
 struct vm_uffd_ops {
 	/* Checks if a VMA can support userfaultfd */
 	bool (*can_userfault)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags);
+	/*
+	 * Called to resolve UFFDIO_CONTINUE request.
+	 * Should return the folio found at pgoff in the VMA's pagecache if it
+	 * exists or ERR_PTR otherwise.
+	 * The returned folio is locked and with reference held.
+	 */
+	struct folio *(*get_folio_noalloc)(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff);
 };
 
 /* A combined operation mode + behavior flags. */
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 9b82cda271c4..87cd8d2fdb97 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -5291,6 +5291,18 @@ static const struct super_operations shmem_ops = {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
+static struct folio *shmem_get_folio_noalloc(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t pgoff)
+{
+	struct folio *folio;
+	int err;
+
+	err = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+	return folio;
+}
+
 static bool shmem_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
 {
 	/*
@@ -5303,7 +5315,8 @@ static bool shmem_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
 }
 
 static const struct vm_uffd_ops shmem_uffd_ops = {
-	.can_userfault	= shmem_can_userfault,
+	.can_userfault		= shmem_can_userfault,
+	.get_folio_noalloc	= shmem_get_folio_noalloc,
 };
 #endif
 
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index d035f5e17f07..f0e6336015f1 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ static int mfill_get_vma(struct mfill_state *state)
 	struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = state->ctx;
 	uffd_flags_t flags = state->flags;
 	struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma;
+	const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops;
 	int err;
 
 	/*
@@ -228,10 +229,12 @@ static int mfill_get_vma(struct mfill_state *state)
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(dst_vma))
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!vma_is_anonymous(dst_vma) && !vma_is_shmem(dst_vma))
+	ops = vma_uffd_ops(dst_vma);
+	if (!ops)
 		goto out_unlock;
-	if (!vma_is_shmem(dst_vma) &&
-	    uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE))
+
+	if (uffd_flags_mode_is(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE) &&
+	    !ops->get_folio_noalloc)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
 out:
@@ -568,6 +571,7 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_zeropage(struct mfill_state *state)
 static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma = state->vma;
+	const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(dst_vma);
 	unsigned long dst_addr = state->dst_addr;
 	pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr);
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(dst_vma->vm_file);
@@ -577,16 +581,13 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
 	struct page *page;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = shmem_get_folio(inode, pgoff, 0, &folio, SGP_NOALLOC);
+	if (!ops)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	folio = ops->get_folio_noalloc(inode, pgoff);
 	/* Our caller expects us to return -EFAULT if we failed to find folio */
-	if (ret == -ENOENT)
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-	if (!folio) {
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	page = folio_file_page(folio, pgoff);
 	if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
@@ -600,13 +601,12 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_continue(struct mfill_state *state)
 		goto out_release;
 
 	folio_unlock(folio);
-	ret = 0;
-out:
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
+
 out_release:
 	folio_unlock(folio);
 	folio_put(folio);
-	goto out;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /* Handles UFFDIO_POISON for all non-hugetlb VMAs. */
-- 
2.51.0


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