Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] hugetlb: Disable huge pmd unshare for uffd-wp

From: Peter Xu
Date: Mon Mar 01 2021 - 09:23:05 EST


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:06:29PM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> v4:
> - fix build for sparc by removing extra line in patch 1 [Mike]
> - pick Mike's r-b for patch 4
>
> v3:
> - patch 4:
> - fix build failure for !CMA and/or !HUGETLBFS [Axel]
> - Fix mmu notifier range to use start/end [Mike]
> - add more r-bs
>
> v2:
> - patch 4: move hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds() into mm/hugetlb.c, so it can be used
> even outside userfaultfd.c
>
> This series tries to disable huge pmd unshare of hugetlbfs backed memory for
> uffd-wp. Although uffd-wp of hugetlbfs is still during rfc stage, the idea of
> this series may be needed for multiple tasks (Axel's uffd minor fault series,
> and Mike's soft dirty series), so I picked it out from the larger series.
>
> References works:
>
> Uffd shmem+hugetlbfs rfc:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115170907.24498-1-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Uffd minor mode for hugetlbfs:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210212215403.3457686-1-axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Soft dirty for hugetlbfs:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210211000322.159437-1-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx/

Andrew/Mike,

Do you have any further comment on this series?

Thanks,

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Peter Xu