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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> It just follows what we do everywhere else (e.g., follow_page_pte()). >> >> >>> + if (try_grab_folio(page_folio(pages[i]), 1, >>> + foll_flags)) { >>> + pages[i] = NULL; >>> + break; >>> + } >>> + } >> >> If it fails on the first iteration, we return -EFAULT instead of -ENOMEM. >> >> I know, I know, nobody cares. But if we touch it, we might just want to return >> the error we get from try_grab_folio(). > > So just abort here and return it? No, that will not work, there's a > lock we would jump around. How about something like this horrid thing, > adding back in the relevant unlikely() to match the other calls like > this: > > > diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c > index ad9ded39609c..8fa5b37be8b7 100644 > --- a/mm/gup.c > +++ b/mm/gup.c > @@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, > struct vm_area_struct *vma; > bool must_unlock = false; > vm_flags_t vm_flags; > + int ret; > long i; > > if (!nr_pages) > @@ -2019,8 +2020,15 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, > > if (pages) { > pages[i] = virt_to_page((void *)start); > - if (pages[i]) > - get_page(pages[i]); > + if (pages[i]) { > + ret = try_grab_folio(page_folio(pages[i]), 1, > + foll_flags); > + if (unlikely(ret)) { > + pages[i] = NULL; > + i = ret; > + break; So, we have to report the old i in case of an error. Assuming we want to also return -EFAULT on !pages[i] -- which i think we want, maybe the following (uncompiled and untested)? diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index ad9ded39609c..d00ff8d988fa 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, struct vm_area_struct *vma; bool must_unlock = false; vm_flags_t vm_flags; + int ret, err = -EFAULT; long i; if (!nr_pages) @@ -2019,8 +2020,14 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, if (pages) { pages[i] = virt_to_page((void *)start); - if (pages[i]) - get_page(pages[i]); + if (!pages[i]) + break; + ret = try_grab_folio(page_folio(pages[i]), 1, foll_flags); + if (ret) { + pages[i] = NULL; + err = ret; + break + } } start = (start + PAGE_SIZE) & PAGE_MASK; @@ -2031,7 +2038,7 @@ static long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, *locked = 0; } - return i ? : -EFAULT; + return i ? : err; } #endif /* !CONFIG_MMU */ -- Cheers, David