From 318b275fbca1ab9ec0862de71420e0e92c3d1aa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gleb Natapov Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:30:51 -0700 Subject: mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page GUP user may want to try to acquire a reference to a page if it is already in memory, but not if IO, to bring it in, is needed. For example KVM may tell vcpu to schedule another guest process if current one is trying to access swapped out page. Meanwhile, the page will be swapped in and the guest process, that depends on it, will be able to run again. This patch adds FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT (suggested by Linus) and FOLL_NOWAIT follow_page flags. FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT, when used in conjunction with VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY, indicates to handle_mm_fault that it shouldn't drop mmap_sem and wait on a page, but return VM_FAULT_RETRY instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve FOLL_NOWAIT comment] Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/filemap.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/filemap.c') diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 83a45d35468b..312b6eb78430 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -621,8 +621,10 @@ int __lock_page_or_retry(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, __lock_page(page); return 1; } else { - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - wait_on_page_locked(page); + if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) { + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + wait_on_page_locked(page); + } return 0; } } -- cgit v1.2.3