Re: [PATCH 0/9] userfaultfd: add minor fault handling

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:13:50PM -0800, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> When I wrote this, my thinking was that users of this feature would
> have two mappings, one of which is not UFFD registered at all. So, to
> replace the existing page contents, userspace would just write to the
> non-UFFD mapping (with memcpy() or whatever else, or we could get
> fancy and imagine using some RDMA technology to copy the page over the
> network from the live migration source directly in place). After
> performing the write, we just UFFDIO_CONTINUE.
> 
> I believe FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE / MADV_REMOVE doesn't work with
> hugetlbfs? Once shmem support is implemented, I would expect
> FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE + UFFDIO_COPY to work, but I wonder if such an
> operation would be more expensive than just copying using the other
> side of the shared mapping?

IIUC hugetlb supports that (hugetlbfs_punch_hole()).  But I agree with you on
what you said should be good enough.  Thanks,

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Peter Xu