mm/gup: stop leaking pinned pages in low memory conditions

If a driver tries to call any of the pin_user_pages*(FOLL_LONGTERM) family
of functions, and requests "too many" pages, then the call will
erroneously leave pages pinned.  This is visible in user space as an
actual memory leak.

Repro is trivial: just make enough pin_user_pages(FOLL_LONGTERM) calls to
exhaust memory.

The root cause of the problem is this sequence, within
__gup_longterm_locked():

    __get_user_pages_locked()
    rc = check_and_migrate_movable_pages()

...which gets retried in a loop.  The loop error handling is incomplete,
clearly due to a somewhat unusual and complicated tri-state error API. 
But anyway, if -ENOMEM, or in fact, any unexpected error is returned from
check_and_migrate_movable_pages(), then __gup_longterm_locked() happily
returns the error, while leaving the pages pinned.

In the failed case, which is an app that requests (via a device driver)
30720000000 bytes to be pinned, and then exits, I see this:

    $ grep foll /proc/vmstat
        nr_foll_pin_acquired 7502048
        nr_foll_pin_released 2048

And after applying this patch, it returns to balanced pins:

    $ grep foll /proc/vmstat
        nr_foll_pin_acquired 7502048
        nr_foll_pin_released 7502048

Note that the child routine, check_and_migrate_movable_folios(), avoids
this problem, by unpinning any folios in the **folios argument, before
returning an error.

Fix this by making check_and_migrate_movable_pages() behave in exactly the
same way as check_and_migrate_movable_folios(): unpin all pages in
**pages, before returning an error.

Also, documentation was an aggravating factor, so:

1) Consolidate the documentation for these two routines, now that they
have identical external behavior.

2) Rewrite the consolidated documentation:

    a) Clearly list the three return code cases, and what happens in
    each case.

    b) Mention that one of the cases unpins the pages or folios, before
    returning an error code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241018223411.310331-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Fixes: 24a95998e9ba ("mm/gup.c: simplify and fix check_and_migrate_movable_pages() return codes")
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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