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Commit c4237f8b authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix get_user_pages_remote()'s handling of FOLL_LONGTERM

As it says in the updated comment in gup.c: current FOLL_LONGTERM
behavior is incompatible with FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY because of the FS
DAX check requirement on vmas.

However, the corresponding restriction in get_user_pages_remote() was
slightly stricter than is actually required: it forbade all
FOLL_LONGTERM callers, but we can actually allow FOLL_LONGTERM callers
that do not set the "locked" arg.

Update the code and comments to loosen the restriction, allowing
FOLL_LONGTERM in some cases.

Also, copy the DAX check ("if a VMA is DAX, don't allow long term
pinning") from the VFIO call site, all the way into the internals of
get_user_pages_remote() and __gup_longterm_locked().  That is:
get_user_pages_remote() calls __gup_longterm_locked(), which in turn
calls check_dax_vmas().  This check will then be removed from the VFIO
call site in a subsequent patch.

Thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for pointing out a clean way to fix this, and
to Dan Williams for helping clarify the DAX refactoring.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107224558.2362728-7-jhubbard@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIra Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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