linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] mlock: do not hold mmap

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Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:42:18 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of
 time

On Thu,  2 Dec 2010 16:16:51 -0800
Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> wrote:

> __get_user_pages gets a new 'nonblocking' parameter to signal that the
> caller is prepared to re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the operation if needed.
> This is used to split off long operations if they are going to block on
> a disk transfer, or when we detect contention on the mmap_sem.

Doesn't apply to linux-next because the KVM guys snuck in a new
FAULT_FLAG_MINOR (who knew?).  With a bonus, undocumented,
exported-to-modules get_user_pages_noio().

I liked your code better so I munged __get_user_pages() together thusly:


			cond_resched();
			while (!(page = follow_page(vma, start, foll_flags))) {
				int ret;
				unsigned int fault_flags = 0;

				if (foll_flags & FOLL_WRITE)
					fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
				if (nonblocking)
					fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
				if (foll_flags & FOLL_MINOR)
					fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_MINOR;

				ret = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, start,
							fault_flags);


please review the end result..
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