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Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) 3628215f7f selftests/mm: add userfaultfd RWP tests
Coverage for UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP and UFFDIO_RWPROTECT:

  rwp-async          async mode — touch pages, verify permissions are
                     auto-restored without a message
  rwp-sync           sync mode — access blocks, handler resolves via
                     UFFDIO_RWPROTECT
  rwp-pagemap        PAGEMAP_SCAN reports still-cold pages via
                     inverted PAGE_IS_ACCESSED
  rwp-mprotect       RWP survives mprotect(PROT_NONE) ->
                     mprotect(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) round-trip
  rwp-gup            GUP walks through a protnone RWP PTE (pipe
                     write/read drives the GUP path)
  rwp-async-toggle   UFFDIO_SET_MODE flips between sync and async
                     without re-registering
  rwp-close          closing the uffd restores page permissions
  rwp-fork           RWP survives fork() with EVENT_FORK; child's
                     PTEs keep the uffd bit
  rwp-fork-pin       RWP survives fork() on an RO-longterm-pinned
                     anon page (forces copy_present_page()); child
                     read auto-resolves and clears the bit, proving
                     PAGE_NONE was in place
  rwp-wp-exclusive   register with MODE_WP|MODE_RWP returns -EINVAL

All tests run against anon, shmem, shmem-private, hugetlb, and
hugetlb-private memory, except rwp-fork-pin which is anon-only —
copy_present_page() is the private-anon pinned-exclusive fork path.

Snapshot the RWP additions into tools/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h so
the selftest builds without requiring "make headers" first, matching the
mechanism established by commit 580ea358af ("selftests/mm: fix
additional build errors for selftests").

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ak-Z9KO2mP9HMOPW@thinkstation
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <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>
2026-08-04 19:18:39 -07:00
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Why we want a copy of kernel headers in tools?
==============================================

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.

There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.

E.g.:

  $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
  $
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
        [0] = "NORMAL",
        [1] = "RANDOM",
        [2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
        [3] = "WILLNEED",
        [4] = "DONTNEED",
        [5] = "NOREUSE",
  };
  $

The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.

So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.

Another explanation from Ingo Molnar:
It's better than all the alternatives we tried so far:

 - Symbolic links and direct #includes: this was the original approach but
   was pushed back on from the kernel side, when tooling modified the
   headers and broke them accidentally for kernel builds.

 - Duplicate self-defined ABI headers like glibc: double the maintenance
   burden, double the chance for mistakes, plus there's no tech-driven
   notification mechanism to look at new kernel side changes.

What we are doing now is a third option:

 - A software-enforced copy-on-write mechanism of kernel headers to
   tooling, driven by non-fatal warnings on the tooling side build when
   kernel headers get modified:

    Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
      diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
      diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h
      diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
      ...

   The tooling policy is to always pick up the kernel side headers as-is,
   and integate them into the tooling build. The warnings above serve as a
   notification to tooling maintainers that there's changes on the kernel
   side.

We've been using this for many years now, and it might seem hacky, but
works surprisingly well.