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| author | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> | 2021-08-17 23:52:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> | 2021-10-24 16:26:05 +0300 |
| commit | 55b8fe703bc51200d4698596c90813453b35ae63 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a7f9a0bcf98aea2fe8f3c7dcf483c75ffd6f6ea /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 4fdccaa0d184c202f98d73b24e3ec8eeee88ab8d (diff) | |
| download | linux-55b8fe703bc51200d4698596c90813453b35ae63.tar.xz | |
gup: Introduce FOLL_NOFAULT flag to disable page faults
Introduce a new FOLL_NOFAULT flag that causes get_user_pages to return
-EFAULT when it would otherwise trigger a page fault. This is roughly
similar to FOLL_FAST_ONLY but available on all architectures, and less
fragile.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 73a52aba448f..2f0e6b9f8f3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2851,7 +2851,8 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, #define FOLL_FORCE 0x10 /* get_user_pages read/write w/o permission */ #define FOLL_NOWAIT 0x20 /* if a disk transfer is needed, start the IO * and return without waiting upon it */ -#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in page */ +#define FOLL_POPULATE 0x40 /* fault in pages (with FOLL_MLOCK) */ +#define FOLL_NOFAULT 0x80 /* do not fault in pages */ #define FOLL_HWPOISON 0x100 /* check page is hwpoisoned */ #define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */ #define FOLL_MIGRATION 0x400 /* wait for page to replace migration entry */ |