The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: teach follow_hugetlb_page() to handle FOLL_NOWAIT has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlbc-teach-follow_hugetlb_page-to-handle-foll_nowait.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlbc-teach-follow_hugetlb_page-to-handle-foll_nowait.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlbc-teach-follow_hugetlb_page-to-handle-foll_nowait.patch 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 and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb.c: teach follow_hugetlb_page() to handle FOLL_NOWAIT hugetlb needs the same fix as faultin_nopage (which was applied in 96312e61282ae ("mm/gup.c: teach get_user_pages_unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT")) or KVM hangs because it thinks the mmap_sem was already released by hugetlb_fault() if it returned VM_FAULT_RETRY, but it wasn't in the FOLL_NOWAIT case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190109020203.26669-2-aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ce53053ce378 ("kvm: switch get_user_page_nowait() to get_user_pages_unlocked()") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlbc-teach-follow_hugetlb_page-to-handle-foll_nowait +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -4268,7 +4268,8 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struc break; } if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) { - if (nonblocking) + if (nonblocking && + !(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) *nonblocking = 0; *nr_pages = 0; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlbc-teach-follow_hugetlb_page-to-handle-foll_nowait.patch