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[ Upstream commit c28b1fc70390df32e29991eedd52bd86e7aba080 ] Patch series "Add a seqcount between gup_fast and copy_page_range()", v4. As discussed and suggested by Linus use a seqcount to close the small race between gup_fast and copy_page_range(). Ahmed confirms that raw_write_seqcount_begin() is the correct API to use in this case and it doesn't trigger any lockdeps. I was able to test it using two threads, one forking and the other using ibv_reg_mr() to trigger GUP fast. Modifying copy_page_range() to sleep made the window large enough to reliably hit to test the logic. This patch (of 2): The next patch in this series makes the lockless flow a little more complex, so move the entire block into a new function and remove a level of indention. Tidy a bit of cruft: - addr is always the same as start, so use start - Use the modern check_add_overflow() for computing end = start + len - nr_pinned/pages << PAGE_SHIFT needs the LHS to be unsigned long to avoid shift overflow, make the variables unsigned long to avoid coding casts in both places. nr_pinned was missing its cast - The handling of ret and nr_pinned can be streamlined a bit No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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