[RFC PATCH 2/3] mm: Provide a function to get an additional pin on a page

From: David Howells
Date: Thu May 25 2023 - 11:52:44 EST


Provide a function to get an additional pin on a page that we already have
a pin on. This will be used in fs/direct-io.c when dispatching multiple
bios to a page we've extracted from a user-backed iter rather than redoing
the extraction.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
mm/gup.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 27ce77080c79..931b75dae7ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2383,6 +2383,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages);
int pin_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages);
+void page_get_additional_pin(struct page *page);

int account_locked_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pages, bool inc);
int __account_locked_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pages, bool inc,
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index d2662aa8cf01..b1e55847ca13 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -275,6 +275,35 @@ void unpin_user_page(struct page *page)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_page);

+/**
+ * page_get_additional_pin - Try to get an additional pin on a pinned page
+ * @page: The page to be pinned
+ *
+ * Get an additional pin on a page we already have a pin on. Makes no change
+ * if the page is the zero_page.
+ */
+void page_get_additional_pin(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
+
+ if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Similar to try_grab_folio(): be sure to *also* increment the normal
+ * page refcount field at least once, so that the page really is
+ * pinned.
+ */
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&folio->_pincount) < 1);
+ folio_ref_add(folio, 1);
+ atomic_add(1, &folio->_pincount);
+ } else {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) < GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS);
+ folio_ref_add(folio, GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS);
+ }
+}
+
static inline struct folio *gup_folio_range_next(struct page *start,
unsigned long npages, unsigned long i, unsigned int *ntails)
{