Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm/gup.c: Reorganize try_get_folio()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 16:29:37 EST


On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 01:18:26PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> struct folio *try_grab_folio(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
> {
> + struct folio *folio;

checkpatch will whinge about there not being a blank line here, and in
this case, I think it's correct.

> if (unlikely(!(flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA) && is_pci_p2pdma_page(page)))
> return NULL;
>
> + folio = try_get_folio(page, refs);
> +
> if (flags & FOLL_GET)
> - return try_get_folio(page, refs);
> - else if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> - struct folio *folio;
> + return folio;
>
> - /*
> - * Can't do FOLL_LONGTERM + FOLL_PIN gup fast path if not in a
> - * right zone, so fail and let the caller fall back to the slow
> - * path.
> - */
> - if (unlikely((flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) &&
> - !is_longterm_pinnable_page(page)))
> - return NULL;
> + if (unlikely(!(flags & FOLL_PIN))) {
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> + return NULL;

Don't we need to folio_put_refs() in this case? Or rather, I think the

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & (FOLL_PIN|FOLL_GET) == 0) {

test should be first.

> + /*
> + * CAUTION: Don't use compound_head() on the page before this
> + * point, the result won't be stable.
> + */

I think we can lose the comment at this point?

> + if (!folio)
> + return NULL;