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authorJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-07-24 08:52:58 +0200
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-07-25 16:14:40 -0300
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mm/hmm: comment on VM_FAULT_RETRY semantics in handle_mm_fault
The magic dropping of mmap_sem when handle_mm_fault returns VM_FAULT_RETRY is rather subtile. Add a comment explaining it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190724065258.16603-8-hch@lst.de Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> [hch: wrote a changelog] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-rw-r--r--mm/hmm.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 16b6731a34db..54b3a4162ae9 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -301,8 +301,10 @@ static int hmm_vma_do_fault(struct mm_walk *walk, unsigned long addr,
flags |= hmm_vma_walk->block ? 0 : FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
flags |= write_fault ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0;
ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, flags);
- if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
+ if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
+ /* Note, handle_mm_fault did up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)) */
return -EAGAIN;
+ }
if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) {
*pfn = range->values[HMM_PFN_ERROR];
return -EFAULT;