Commit a2ad1b81 authored by Steve Sistare's avatar Steve Sistare Committed by Jason Gunthorpe
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mm/gup: Add folio_add_pins()

Export a function that adds pins to an already-pinned huge-page folio.
This allows any range of small pages within the folio to be unpinned later.
For example, pages pinned via memfd_pin_folios and modified by
folio_add_pins could be unpinned via unpin_user_page(s).

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/1729861919-234514-2-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com


Suggested-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
parent e2d8fe91
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@@ -2524,6 +2524,7 @@ long pin_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
		      struct folio **folios, unsigned int max_folios,
		      pgoff_t *offset);
int folio_add_pins(struct folio *folio, unsigned int pins);

int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
			unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages);
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@@ -3717,3 +3717,27 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
	return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memfd_pin_folios);

/**
 * folio_add_pins() - add pins to an already-pinned folio
 * @folio: the folio to add more pins to
 * @pins: number of pins to add
 *
 * Try to add more pins to an already-pinned folio. The semantics
 * of the pin (e.g., FOLL_WRITE) follow any existing pin and cannot
 * be changed.
 *
 * This function is helpful when having obtained a pin on a large folio
 * using memfd_pin_folios(), but wanting to logically unpin parts
 * (e.g., individual pages) of the folio later, for example, using
 * unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock().
 *
 * This is not the right interface to initially pin a folio.
 */
int folio_add_pins(struct folio *folio, unsigned int pins)
{
	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_maybe_dma_pinned(folio));

	return try_grab_folio(folio, pins, FOLL_PIN);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(folio_add_pins);