static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked) { long ret = 0, i = 0; struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; struct follow_page_context ctx = { NULL }; if (!nr_pages) return 0; start = untagged_addr_remote(mm, start); VM_BUG_ON(!!pages != !!(gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))); do { struct page *page; unsigned int foll_flags = gup_flags; unsigned int page_increm; /* first iteration or cross vma bound */ if (!vma || start >= vma->vm_end) { /* * MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) wants to handle VMA * lookups+error reporting differently. */ if (gup_flags & FOLL_MADV_POPULATE) { vma = vma_lookup(mm, start); if (!vma) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } goto retry; } vma = gup_vma_lookup(mm, start); if (!vma && in_gate_area(mm, start)) { ret = get_gate_page(mm, start & PAGE_MASK, gup_flags, &vma, pages ? &page : NULL); if (ret) goto out; ctx.page_mask = 0; goto next_page; } if (!vma) { ret = -EFAULT; goto out; } ret = check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags); if (ret) goto out; } retry: /* * If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting pages and * potentially allocating memory. */ if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { ret = -EINTR; goto out; } cond_resched(); page = follow_page_mask(vma, start, foll_flags, &ctx); if (!page || PTR_ERR(page) == -EMLINK) { ret = faultin_page(vma, start, &foll_flags, PTR_ERR(page) == -EMLINK, locked); switch (ret) { case 0: goto retry; case -EBUSY: case -EAGAIN: ret = 0; fallthrough; case -EFAULT: case -ENOMEM: case -EHWPOISON: goto out; } BUG(); } else if (PTR_ERR(page) == -EEXIST) { /* * Proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding * struct page. If the caller expects **pages to be * filled in, bail out now, because that can't be done * for this page. */ if (pages) { ret = PTR_ERR(page); goto out; } } else if (IS_ERR(page)) { ret = PTR_ERR(page); goto out; } next_page: page_increm = 1 + (~(start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & ctx.page_mask); if (page_increm > nr_pages) page_increm = nr_pages; if (pages) { struct page *subpage; unsigned int j; /* * This must be a large folio (and doesn't need to * be the whole folio; it can be part of it), do * the refcount work for all the subpages too. * * NOTE: here the page may not be the head page * e.g. when start addr is not thp-size aligned. * try_grab_folio() should have taken care of tail * pages. */ if (page_increm > 1) { struct folio *folio; /* * Since we already hold refcount on the * large folio, this should never fail. */ folio = try_grab_folio(page, page_increm - 1, foll_flags); if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio)) { /* * Release the 1st page ref if the * folio is problematic, fail hard. */ gup_put_folio(page_folio(page), 1, foll_flags); ret = -EFAULT; goto out; } } for (j = 0; j < page_increm; j++) { subpage = nth_page(page, j); pages[i + j] = subpage; flush_anon_page(vma, subpage, start + j * PAGE_SIZE); flush_dcache_page(subpage); } } i += page_increm; start += page_increm * PAGE_SIZE; nr_pages -= page_increm; } while (nr_pages); out: if (ctx.pgmap) put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap); return i ? i : ret; }
Literally the actual policy logic of gup. Most important piece of code right here for gup