linux/include
Gleb Natapov 318b275fbc mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page
GUP user may want to try to acquire a reference to a page if it is already
in memory, but not if IO, to bring it in, is needed.  For example KVM may
tell vcpu to schedule another guest process if current one is trying to
access swapped out page.  Meanwhile, the page will be swapped in and the
guest process, that depends on it, will be able to run again.

This patch adds FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT (suggested by Linus) and
FOLL_NOWAIT follow_page flags.  FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT, when used in
conjunction with VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY, indicates to handle_mm_fault that
it shouldn't drop mmap_sem and wait on a page, but return VM_FAULT_RETRY
instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve FOLL_NOWAIT comment]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
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acpi PM: Remove CONFIG_PM_OPS 2011-03-15 00:43:15 +01:00
asm-generic include/asm-generic/unistd.h: fix syncfs syscall number 2011-03-22 17:43:58 -07:00
crypto
drm Merge remote branch 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next into drm-core-next 2011-03-14 14:15:13 +10:00
keys RxRPC: Fix v1 keys 2011-03-02 22:18:53 -08:00
linux mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] v4l: Include linux/videodev2.h in media/v4l2-ctrls.h 2011-01-19 11:52:09 -02:00
mtd
net IPVS: Use global mutex in ip_vs_app.c 2011-03-21 20:39:24 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: re-enable Zoomed Video support 2011-02-20 12:47:34 +01:00
rdma RDMA: Update workqueue usage 2011-01-16 21:16:31 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-03-17 17:54:40 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linus 2011-03-18 07:39:08 +01:00
target [SCSI] target: Fix t_transport_aborted handling in LUN_RESET + active I/O shutdown 2011-02-28 11:23:32 -06:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2011-03-18 10:46:37 -07:00
video fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Add YUV framebuffer support 2011-03-16 17:27:10 +09:00
xen Merge branch 'stable/xen.pm.bug-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-03-17 18:37:42 -07:00
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