Introduce a new FOLL_NOFAULT flag that causes get_user_pages to return -EFAULT when it would otherwise trigger a page fault. This is roughly similar to FOLL_FAST_ONLY but available on all architectures, and less fragile. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++- mm/gup.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 73a52aba448f..2f0e6b9f8f3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2851,7 +2851,8 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, #define FOLL_FORCE 0x10 /* get_user_pages read/write w/o permission */ #define FOLL_NOWAIT 0x20 /* if a disk transfer is needed, start the IO * and return without waiting upon it */ -#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in page */ +#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in pages (with FOLL_MLOCK) */ +#define FOLL_NOFAULT 0x80 /* do not fault in pages */ #define FOLL_HWPOISON 0x100 /* check page is hwpoisoned */ #define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */ #define FOLL_MIGRATION 0x400 /* wait for page to replace migration entry */ diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 614b8536b3b6..6ec8f5494424 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -918,6 +918,8 @@ static int faultin_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, /* mlock all present pages, but do not fault in new pages */ if ((*flags & (FOLL_POPULATE | FOLL_MLOCK)) == FOLL_MLOCK) return -ENOENT; + if (*flags & FOLL_NOFAULT) + return -EFAULT; if (*flags & FOLL_WRITE) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE; if (*flags & FOLL_REMOTE) @@ -2843,7 +2845,7 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET | - FOLL_FAST_ONLY))) + FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_NOFAULT))) return -EINVAL; if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) -- 2.26.3
