[merged] mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm

Patch series "introduce get_user_pages_longterm()", v2.

Here is a new get_user_pages api for cases where a driver intends to keep
an elevated page count indefinitely.  This is distinct from usages like
iov_iter_get_pages where the elevated page counts are transient.  The
iov_iter_get_pages cases immediately turn around and submit the pages to a
device driver which will put_page when the i/o operation completes (under
kernel control).

In the longterm case userspace is responsible for dropping the page
reference at some undefined point in the future.  This is untenable for
filesystem-dax case where the filesystem is in control of the lifetime of
the block / page and needs reasonable limits on how long it can wait for
pages in a mapping to become idle.

Fixing filesystems to actually wait for dax pages to be idle before blocks
from a truncate/hole-punch operation are repurposed is saved for a later
patch series.

Also, allowing longterm registration of dax mappings is a future patch
series that introduces a "map with lease" semantic where the kernel can
revoke a lease and force userspace to drop its page references.

I have also tagged these for -stable to purposely break cases that might
assume that longterm memory registrations for filesystem-dax mappings were
supported by the kernel.  The behavior regression this policy change
implies is one of the reasons we maintain the "dax enabled.  Warning:
EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk" notification when mounting a
filesystem in dax mode.

It is worth noting the device-dax interface does not suffer the same
constraints since it does not support file space management operations
like hole-punch.


This patch (of 4):

Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is not
safe to allow long standing memory registrations against filesytem-dax
vmas.  Device-dax vmas do not have this problem and are explicitly
allowed.

This is temporary until a "memory registration with layout-lease"
mechanism can be implemented for the affected sub-systems (RDMA and V4L2).

[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: use kcalloc()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151068939435.7446.13560129395419350737.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/fs.h |   14 +++++++++
 include/linux/mm.h |   13 ++++++++
 mm/gup.c           |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)

diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm include/linux/fs.h
--- a/include/linux/fs.h~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm
+++ a/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3194,6 +3194,20 @@ static inline bool vma_is_dax(struct vm_
 	return vma->vm_file && IS_DAX(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host);
 }
 
+static inline bool vma_is_fsdax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct inode *inode;
+
+	if (!vma->vm_file)
+		return false;
+	if (!vma_is_dax(vma))
+		return false;
+	inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
+	if (inode->i_mode == S_IFCHR)
+		return false; /* device-dax */
+	return true;
+}
+
 static inline int iocb_flags(struct file *file)
 {
 	int res = 0;
diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1380,6 +1380,19 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long
 		    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked);
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		    struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+			    unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
+			    struct vm_area_struct **vmas);
+#else
+static inline long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start,
+		unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags,
+		struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
+{
+	return get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages, vmas);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
 int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 			struct page **pages);
 
diff -puN mm/gup.c~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm mm/gup.c
--- a/mm/gup.c~mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm
+++ a/mm/gup.c
@@ -1095,6 +1095,70 @@ long get_user_pages(unsigned long start,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
+/*
+ * This is the same as get_user_pages() in that it assumes we are
+ * operating on the current task's mm, but it goes further to validate
+ * that the vmas associated with the address range are suitable for
+ * longterm elevated page reference counts. For example, filesystem-dax
+ * mappings are subject to the lifetime enforced by the filesystem and
+ * we need guarantees that longterm users like RDMA and V4L2 only
+ * establish mappings that have a kernel enforced revocation mechanism.
+ *
+ * "longterm" == userspace controlled elevated page count lifetime.
+ * Contrast this to iov_iter_get_pages() usages which are transient.
+ */
+long get_user_pages_longterm(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+		unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
+		struct vm_area_struct **vmas_arg)
+{
+	struct vm_area_struct **vmas = vmas_arg;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma_prev = NULL;
+	long rc, i;
+
+	if (!pages)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (!vmas) {
+		vmas = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct vm_area_struct *),
+			       GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!vmas)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	rc = get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages, vmas);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < rc; i++) {
+		struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmas[i];
+
+		if (vma == vma_prev)
+			continue;
+
+		vma_prev = vma;
+
+		if (vma_is_fsdax(vma))
+			break;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Either get_user_pages() failed, or the vma validation
+	 * succeeded, in either case we don't need to put_page() before
+	 * returning.
+	 */
+	if (i >= rc)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < rc; i++)
+		put_page(pages[i]);
+	rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+out:
+	if (vmas != vmas_arg)
+		kfree(vmas);
+	return rc;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_longterm);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */
+
 /**
  * populate_vma_page_range() -  populate a range of pages in the vma.
  * @vma:   target vma
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are





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