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Commit 3faa52c0 authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages

Add tracking of pages that were pinned via FOLL_PIN.  This tracking is
implemented via overloading of page->_refcount: pins are added by adding
GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS (1024) to the refcount.  This provides a fuzzy
indication of pinning, and it can have false positives (and that's OK).
Please see the pre-existing Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for
details.

As mentioned in pin_user_pages.rst, callers who effectively set FOLL_PIN
(typically via pin_user_pages*()) are required to ultimately free such
pages via unpin_user_page().

Please also note the limitation, discussed in pin_user_pages.rst under the
"TODO: for 1GB and larger huge pages" section.  (That limitation will be
removed in a following patch.)

The effect of a FOLL_PIN flag is similar to that of FOLL_GET, and may be
thought of as "FOLL_GET for DIO and/or RDMA use".

Pages that have been pinned via FOLL_PIN are identifiable via a new
function call:

   bool page_maybe_dma_pinned(struct page *page);

What to do in response to encountering such a page, is left to later
patchsets. There is discussion about this in [1], [2], [3], and [4].

This also changes a BUG_ON(), to a WARN_ON(), in follow_page_mask().

[1] Some slow progress on get_user_pages() (Apr 2, 2019):
    https://lwn.net/Articles/784574/
[2] DMA and get_user_pages() (LPC: Dec 12, 2018):
    https://lwn.net/Articles/774411/
[3] The trouble with get_user_pages() (Apr 30, 2018):
    https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/
[4] LWN kernel index: get_user_pages():
    https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Memory_management-get_user_pages

[jhubbard@nvidia.com: add kerneldoc]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200307021157.235726-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
[imbrenda@linux.ibm.com: if pin fails, we need to unpin, a simple put_page will not be enough]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306132537.783769-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com


[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix put_compound_head defined but not used]
Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: default avatarJérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211001536.1027652-7-jhubbard@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 94202f12
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