On 12/5/25 17:58, Kalyazin, Nikita wrote:
> From: Patrick Roy <[email protected]>
> 
> Add AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP for mappings where direct map entries of folios are
> set to not present. Currently, mappings that match this description are
> secretmem mappings (memfd_secret()). Later, some guest_memfd
> configurations will also fall into this category.
> 
> Reject this new type of mappings in all locations that currently reject
> secretmem mappings, on the assumption that if secretmem mappings are
> rejected somewhere, it is precisely because of an inability to deal with
> folios without direct map entries, and then make memfd_secret() use
> AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP on its address_space to drop its special
> vma_is_secretmem()/secretmem_mapping() checks.
> 
> This drops a optimization in gup_fast_folio_allowed() where
> secretmem_mapping() was only called if CONFIG_SECRETMEM=y. secretmem is
> enabled by default since commit b758fe6df50d ("mm/secretmem: make it on
> by default"), so the secretmem check did not actually end up elided in
> most cases anymore anyway.
> 
> Use a new flag instead of overloading AS_INACCESSIBLE (which is already
> set by guest_memfd) because not all guest_memfd mappings will end up
> being direct map removed (e.g. in pKVM setups, parts of guest_memfd that
> can be mapped to userspace should also be GUP-able, and generally not
> have restrictions on who can access it).
> 
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Roy <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Nikita Kalyazin <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>


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