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| author | Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org> | 2026-07-08 12:14:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-04 19:18:39 -0700 |
| commit | 39a7c34ea5082d721c980db2064e749c61068535 (patch) | |
| tree | 053acbacc9a3d3d46f562433588552c98f3fec6c /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | 45347e3d32c15bc70f097bef9ef1a7b90218d450 (diff) | |
userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_SET_MODE for runtime sync/async toggle
Add an ioctl to toggle async mode at runtime without re-registering the
userfaultfd. This allows a VMM to switch between sync and async RWP modes
on-the-fly -- for example, starting in async mode for working set
scanning, then switching to sync mode to intercept faults during page
eviction.
UFFDIO_SET_MODE takes an enable/disable bitmask of UFFD_FEATURE_* flags.
Only UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC is toggleable today; the ioctl rejects any
other bit with -EINVAL. Enabling RWP_ASYNC also requires RWP to have been
negotiated at UFFDIO_API time, mirroring the UFFDIO_API invariant.
Fault-path readers of ctx->features run under mmap_read_lock or a per-VMA
lock; the RMW takes mmap_write_lock and calls vma_start_write() on every
UFFD-armed VMA, so those readers are fully excluded.
userfaultfd_show_fdinfo(), however, reads ctx->features without any lock,
so the RMW is written as a single WRITE_ONCE and fdinfo reads it with
READ_ONCE. That keeps the lockless observer from seeing a mid-RMW
intermediate and removes the audit burden when new toggleable bits are
added later.
When switching to async, pending sync waiters are woken so they retry and
auto-resolve under the new mode.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708111417.173443-14-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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