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>
This commit is contained in:
Andrea Arcangeli
2015-02-11 15:27:20 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f0818f472d
commit 0fd71a56f4
3 changed files with 49 additions and 15 deletions

View File

@@ -1265,6 +1265,10 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
int *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,
unsigned int gup_flags);
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);