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authorPeter Xu2022-05-12 20:22:52 -0700
committerAndrew Morton2022-05-13 07:20:09 -0700
commit1db9dbc2ef05205bf1022f9b14aa29b1dd8efd7e (patch)
tree0c7231f1d2c08f4f9d44ddc65d124e37d146dedb /mm/Kconfig
parentf46f2adecdcc1ba0799383e67fe98f65f41fea5c (diff)
mm/uffd: PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
This patch introduces the 1st user of pte marker: the uffd-wp marker. When the pte marker is installed with the uffd-wp bit set, it means this pte was wr-protected by uffd. We will use this special pte to arm the ptes that got either unmapped or swapped out for a file-backed region that was previously wr-protected. This special pte could trigger a page fault just like swap entries. This idea is greatly inspired by Hugh and Andrea in the discussion, which is referenced in the links below. Some helpers are introduced to detect whether a swap pte is uffd wr-protected. After the pte marker introduced, one swap pte can be wr-protected in two forms: either it is a normal swap pte and it has _PAGE_SWP_UFFD_WP set, or it's a pte marker that has PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP set. [peterx@redhat.com: fixup] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YkzKiM8tI4+qOfXF@xz-m1.local Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201126222359.8120-1-peterx@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201130230603.46187-1-peterx@redhat.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014838.14131-1-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 2262f211b53e..71c653260a44 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -915,6 +915,15 @@ config PTE_MARKER
help
Allows to create marker PTEs for file-backed memory.
+config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
+ bool "Marker PTEs support for userfaultfd write protection"
+ depends on PTE_MARKER && HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
+
+ help
+ Allows to create marker PTEs for userfaultfd write protection
+ purposes. It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on
+ file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs.
+
source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
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