Skip to content
Commit c36c04c2 authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

Revert "mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()"

This reverts commit 54d516b1

That commit did a refactoring that effectively combined fast and slow
gup paths (again).  And that was again incorrect, for two reasons:

 a) Fast gup and slow gup get reference counts on pages in different
    ways and with different goals: see Linus' writeup in commit
    cd1adf1b ("Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call
    try_get_compound_head() directly""), and

 b) try_grab_compound_head() also has a specific check for
    "FOLL_LONGTERM && !is_pinned(page)", that assumes that the caller
    can fall back to slow gup. This resulted in new failures, as
    recently report by Will McVicker [1].

But (a) has problems too, even though they may not have been reported
yet.  So just revert this.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131203504.3458775-1-willmcvicker@google.com

 [1]
Fixes: 54d516b1 ("mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()")
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarWill McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d394bb77
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment