The patch titled Subject: mm/gup: make get_user_pages_fast_only() return the common return value has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-gup-make-get_user_pages_fast_only-return-the-common-return-value.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-gup-make-get_user_pages_fast_only-return-the-common-return-value.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/gup: make get_user_pages_fast_only() return the common return value Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:34:32 -0400 There are only two callers, both can handle the common return code: - get_user_page_fast_only() checks == 1 - gfn_to_page_many_atomic() already returns -1, and the only caller checks for negative return values Remove the restriction against returning negative values. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/11-v2-987e91b59705+36b-gup_tidy_jgg@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-make-get_user_pages_fast_only-return-the-common-return-value +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -3005,8 +3005,6 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast( * * Like get_user_pages_fast() except it's IRQ-safe in that it won't fall back to * the regular GUP. - * Note a difference with get_user_pages_fast: this always returns the - * number of pages pinned, 0 if no pages were pinned. * * If the architecture does not support this function, simply return with no * pages pinned. @@ -3018,7 +3016,6 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast( int get_user_pages_fast_only(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { - int nr_pinned; /* * Internally (within mm/gup.c), gup fast variants must set FOLL_GET, * because gup fast is always a "pin with a +1 page refcount" request. @@ -3030,19 +3027,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast_only(unsigned lo FOLL_GET | FOLL_FAST_ONLY)) return -EINVAL; - nr_pinned = internal_get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, - pages); - - /* - * As specified in the API description above, this routine is not - * allowed to return negative values. However, the common core - * routine internal_get_user_pages_fast() *can* return -errno. - * Therefore, correct for that here: - */ - if (nr_pinned < 0) - nr_pinned = 0; - - return nr_pinned; + return internal_get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast_only); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jgg@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-gup-have-internal-functions-get-the-mmap_read_lock.patch mm-gup-remove-obsolete-foll_longterm-comment.patch mm-gup-dont-call-__gup_longterm_locked-if-foll_longterm-cannot-be-set.patch mm-gup-move-try_grab_page-to-mm-internalh.patch mm-gup-simplify-the-external-interface-functions-and-consolidate-invariants.patch mm-gup-add-an-assertion-that-the-mmap-lock-is-locked.patch mm-gup-remove-locked-being-null-from-faultin_vma_page_range.patch mm-gup-add-foll_unlockable.patch mm-gup-make-locked-never-null-in-the-internal-gup-functions.patch mm-gup-remove-pin_user_pages_fast_only.patch mm-gup-make-get_user_pages_fast_only-return-the-common-return-value.patch mm-gup-move-gup_must_unshare-to-mm-internalh.patch mm-gup-move-private-gup-foll_-flags-to-internalh.patch