kernel/events/uprobes: pass VMA instead of MM to remove_breakpoint()

Patch series "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite", v3.

Currently, uprobe_write_opcode() implements COW-breaking manually, which
is really far from ideal.  Further, there is interest in supporting
uprobes on hugetlb pages [1], and leaving at least the COW-breaking to the
core will make this much easier.

Also, I think the current code doesn't really handle some things properly
(see patch #3) when replacing/zapping pages.

Let's rewrite it, to leave COW-breaking to the fault handler, and handle
registration/unregistration by temporarily unmapping the anonymous page,
modifying it, and mapping it again.  We still have to implement zapping of
anonymous pages ourselves, unfortunately.

We could look into not performing the temporary unmapping if we can
perform the write atomically, which would likely also make adding hugetlb
support a lot easier.  But, limited (e.g., only PMD/PUD) hugetlb support
could be added on top of this with some tweaking.

Note that we now won't have to allocate another anonymous folio when
unregistering (which will be beneficial for hugetlb as well), we can
simply modify the already-mapped one from the registration (if any).  When
registering a uprobe, we'll first trigger a ptrace-like write fault to
break COW, to then modify the already-mapped page.

Briefly sanity tested with perf probes and with the bpf uprobes selftest.


This patch (of 3):

Pass VMA instead of MM to remove_breakpoint() and remove the "MM" argument
from install_breakpoint(), because it can easily be derived from the VMA.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: tongtiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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