mm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize gup_flags
Some callers (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like FOLL_HWPOSION
to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to take a more
appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory failure.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index bfb690b..4d1b8a1 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -224,9 +224,10 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);
-long get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
- int write, int force, struct page **pages)
+long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+ int write, int force, struct page **pages,
+ unsigned int gup_flags)
{
long ret;
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
@@ -235,6 +236,15 @@
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_pages_unlocked);
+
+long get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
+ int write, int force, struct page **pages)
+{
+ return __get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, write,
+ force, pages, 0);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
/**