linux/mm
Gleb Natapov 318b275fbc 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 <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
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backing-dev.c
bootmem.c bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
bounce.c
compaction.c mm/compaction: check migrate_pages's return value instead of list_empty() 2011-03-22 17:44:00 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in dma_pool_alloc() 2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
fremap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c thp+memcg-numa: fix BUG at include/linux/mm.h:370! 2011-03-14 08:29:50 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: fix handling of parse errors in sysfs 2011-01-13 17:32:49 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: export __get_user_pages 2011-03-17 13:08:27 -03:00
Kconfig mm: compaction: don't depend on HUGETLB_PAGE 2011-01-26 10:50:02 +10:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail 2011-01-27 18:32:06 +00:00
ksm.c ksm: drain pagevecs to lru 2011-01-13 17:32:49 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c thp: khugepaged: make khugepaged aware about madvise 2011-01-13 17:32:47 -08:00
Makefile bootmem: Separate out CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM code into nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:05 +01:00
memblock.c memblock: don't adjust size in memblock_find_base() 2011-02-11 16:12:20 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix event counting breakage from recent THP update 2011-02-02 16:03:19 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c Merge branch 'slub/hotplug' into slab/urgent 2011-01-15 13:28:17 +02:00
memory-failure.c mm: remove is_hwpoison_address 2011-03-17 13:08:27 -03:00
memory.c mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: grab rcu read lock in move_pages() 2011-02-25 15:07:36 -08:00
mincore.c thp: mincore transparent hugepage support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: operate on any regions with protection != PROT_NONE 2011-02-02 10:20:50 +11:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK 2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c thp: mmu_notifier_test_young 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low 2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG 2011-02-23 21:55:06 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
nommu.c mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of time 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_alloc.c oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on page alloc failure 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: avoid unnecessary determine_dirtyable_memory call 2011-01-13 17:32:38 -08:00
pagewalk.c thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas 2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c thp: fix page_referenced to modify mapcount/vm_flags only if page is found 2011-03-13 15:35:57 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
slab.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
slob.c mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name() 2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
slub.c slub: Add statistics for this_cmpxchg_double failures 2011-03-22 20:48:04 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
swap_state.c thp: split_huge_page paging 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
swap.c Revert "mm: simplify code of swap.c" 2011-01-17 14:42:34 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: swap: unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles 2011-03-22 17:43:58 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c memcg: more mem_cgroup_uncharge() batching 2011-02-25 15:07:37 -08:00
util.c kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful 2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
vmalloc.c mm: vmap area cache 2011-03-22 17:44:00 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: compaction: prevent kswapd compacting memory to reduce CPU usage 2011-03-22 17:44:00 -07:00
vmstat.c thp: transparent hugepage vmstat 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00