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gup: Introduce FOLL_NOFAULT flag to disable page faults 

Introduce a new FOLL_NOFAULT flag that causes get_user_pages to return
-EFAULT when it would otherwise trigger a page fault.  This is roughly
similar to FOLL_FAST_ONLY but available on all architectures, and less
fragile.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
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Andreas Gruenbacher 2021-08-17 22:52:08 +02:00
parent 4fdccaa0d1
commit 55b8fe703b
2 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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include/linux/mm.h
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@ -2851,7 +2851,8 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
#define FOLL_FORCE 0x10 /* get_user_pages read/write w/o permission */
#define FOLL_NOWAIT 0x20 /* if a disk transfer is needed, start the IO
* and return without waiting upon it */
#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in page */
#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in pages (with FOLL_MLOCK) */
#define FOLL_NOFAULT 0x80 /* do not fault in pages */
#define FOLL_HWPOISON 0x100 /* check page is hwpoisoned */
#define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */
#define FOLL_MIGRATION 0x400 /* wait for page to replace migration entry */

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mm/gup.c
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@ -918,6 +918,8 @@ static int faultin_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/* mlock all present pages, but do not fault in new pages */
if ((*flags & (FOLL_POPULATE | FOLL_MLOCK)) == FOLL_MLOCK)
return -ENOENT;
if (*flags & FOLL_NOFAULT)
return -EFAULT;
if (*flags & FOLL_WRITE)
fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
if (*flags & FOLL_REMOTE)
@ -2843,7 +2845,7 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM |
FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET |
FOLL_FAST_ONLY)))
FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_NOFAULT)))
return -EINVAL;
if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN)