If userfaultfd is armed on a certain vma we can't "fill" the holes with zeroes or we'll break the userland on demand paging. The holes if the userfault is armed, are really missing information (not zeroes) that the userland has to load from network or elsewhere.
The same issue happens for wrprotected ptes that we can't just convert into a single writable pmd_trans_huge. We could however in theory still merge across zeropages if only VM_UFFD_MISSING is set (so if VM_UFFD_WP is not set)... that could be slightly improved but it'd be much more complex code for a tiny corner case. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 5374132..8f1b6a5 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2145,7 +2145,8 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, _pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) { pte_t pteval = *_pte; if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) { - if (++none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) + if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) && + ++none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) continue; else goto out; @@ -2593,7 +2594,8 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, _pte++, _address += PAGE_SIZE) { pte_t pteval = *_pte; if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) { - if (++none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) + if (!userfaultfd_armed(vma) && + ++none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) continue; else goto out_unmap; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/