[PATCH 3/5] mm/gup: add gup_fill_pages() and use it

From: Rik van Riel

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 23:17:18 EST


follow_huge_pud(), follow_huge_pmd(), and follow_page_pte_commit() each
store the page they found into pages[0] and flush its caches with the
same three lines.

Add a gup_fill_pages() helper for that, and call it from all three
instead of repeating the loop.

No functional changes intended.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 053da43760a2..b6d508a44ced 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -633,6 +633,23 @@ static long no_page_table(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return 0;
}

+static void gup_fill_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ struct page *page, unsigned long nr, struct page **pages)
+{
+ unsigned long i;
+
+ if (!pages)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+ struct page *subpage = page + i;
+
+ pages[i] = subpage;
+ flush_anon_page(vma, subpage, address + i * PAGE_SIZE);
+ flush_dcache_page(subpage);
+ }
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES
/* FOLL_FORCE can write to even unwritable PUDs in COW mappings. */
static inline bool can_follow_write_pud(pud_t pud, struct page *page,
@@ -678,11 +695,7 @@ static long follow_huge_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

*page_mask = HPAGE_PUD_NR - 1;

- if (pages) {
- pages[0] = page;
- flush_anon_page(vma, page, addr);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
- }
+ gup_fill_pages(vma, addr, page, 1, pages);

return 1;
}
@@ -747,11 +760,7 @@ static long follow_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
page += (addr & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
*page_mask = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1;

- if (pages) {
- pages[0] = page;
- flush_anon_page(vma, page, addr);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
- }
+ gup_fill_pages(vma, addr, page, 1, pages);

return 1;
}
@@ -854,11 +863,7 @@ static long follow_page_pte_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
folio_mark_accessed(folio);
}

- if (pages) {
- pages[0] = page;
- flush_anon_page(vma, page, address);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
- }
+ gup_fill_pages(vma, address, page, 1, pages);

return 0;
}
--
2.53.0-Meta