[PATCH RFC v2 4/4] mm: gup: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times

[Peter Xu]

This is the gup counterpart of the change that allows the VM_FAULT_RETRY
to happen for more than once.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/gup.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 6faff46cd409..8a0e7f9bd29a 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -522,7 +522,10 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (*flags & FOLL_NOWAIT)
 		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT;
 	if (*flags & FOLL_TRIED) {
-		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY);
+		/*
+		 * Note: FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and FAULT_FLAG_TRIED
+		 * can co-exist
+		 */
 		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 	}
 
@@ -938,17 +941,23 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk,
 		/* VM_FAULT_RETRY triggered, so seek to the faulting offset */
 		pages += ret;
 		start += ret << PAGE_SHIFT;
+		lock_dropped = true;
 
+retry:
 		/*
 		 * Repeat on the address that fired VM_FAULT_RETRY
-		 * without FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY but with
+		 * with both FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and
 		 * FAULT_FLAG_TRIED.
 		 */
 		*locked = 1;
-		lock_dropped = true;
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		ret = __get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, 1, flags | FOLL_TRIED,
-				       pages, NULL, NULL);
+				       pages, NULL, locked);
+		if (!*locked) {
+			/* Continue to retry until we succeeded */
+			BUG_ON(ret != 0);
+			goto retry;
+		}
 		if (ret != 1) {
 			BUG_ON(ret > 1);
 			if (!pages_done)
-- 
2.17.1