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  1. Nov 2024
    1. #if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) static int __gup_device_huge(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { int nr_start = *nr; struct dev_pagemap *pgmap = NULL; do { struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn); pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, pgmap); if (unlikely(!pgmap)) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); break; } if (!(flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA) && is_pci_p2pdma_page(page)) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); break; } SetPageReferenced(page); pages[*nr] = page; if (unlikely(try_grab_page(page, flags))) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); break; } (*nr)++; pfn++; } while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); put_dev_pagemap(pgmap); return addr == end; } static int __gup_device_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long fault_pfn; int nr_start = *nr; fault_pfn = pmd_pfn(orig) + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); if (!__gup_device_huge(fault_pfn, addr, end, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; if (unlikely(pmd_val(orig) != pmd_val(*pmdp))) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); return 0; } return 1; } static int __gup_device_huge_pud(pud_t orig, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long fault_pfn; int nr_start = *nr; fault_pfn = pud_pfn(orig) + ((addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); if (!__gup_device_huge(fault_pfn, addr, end, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; if (unlikely(pud_val(orig) != pud_val(*pudp))) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); return 0; } return 1; } #else static int __gup_device_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { BUILD_BUG(); return 0; } static int __gup_device_huge_pud(pud_t pud, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { BUILD_BUG(); return 0; } #endif

      seems like a check to see if pages can be grabbed. A quick skim maybe hints possible checks if huge pages can be grabbed?

    2. #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD static unsigned long hugepte_addr_end(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned long sz) { unsigned long __boundary = (addr + sz) & ~(sz-1); return (__boundary - 1 < end - 1) ? __boundary : end; } static int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long pte_end; struct page *page; struct folio *folio; pte_t pte; int refs; pte_end = (addr + sz) & ~(sz-1); if (pte_end < end) end = pte_end; pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep); if (!pte_access_permitted(pte, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) return 0; /* hugepages are never "special" */ VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte))); page = nth_page(pte_page(pte), (addr & (sz - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT); refs = record_subpages(page, addr, end, pages + *nr); folio = try_grab_folio(page, refs, flags); if (!folio) return 0; if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(ptep_get(ptep)))) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!pte_write(pte) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, &folio->page)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } *nr += refs; folio_set_referenced(folio); return 1; } static int gup_huge_pd(hugepd_t hugepd, unsigned long addr, unsigned int pdshift, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { pte_t *ptep; unsigned long sz = 1UL << hugepd_shift(hugepd); unsigned long next; ptep = hugepte_offset(hugepd, addr, pdshift); do { next = hugepte_addr_end(addr, end, sz); if (!gup_hugepte(ptep, sz, addr, end, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } while (ptep++, addr = next, addr != end); return 1; } #else static inline int gup_huge_pd(hugepd_t hugepd, unsigned long addr, unsigned int pdshift, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD */ static int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { struct page *page; struct folio *folio; int refs; if (!pmd_access_permitted(orig, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) return 0; if (pmd_devmap(orig)) { if (unlikely(flags & FOLL_LONGTERM)) return 0; return __gup_device_huge_pmd(orig, pmdp, addr, end, flags, pages, nr); } page = nth_page(pmd_page(orig), (addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); refs = record_subpages(page, addr, end, pages + *nr); folio = try_grab_folio(page, refs, flags); if (!folio) return 0; if (unlikely(pmd_val(orig) != pmd_val(*pmdp))) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!pmd_write(orig) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, &folio->page)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } *nr += refs; folio_set_referenced(folio); return 1; } static int gup_huge_pud(pud_t orig, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { struct page *page; struct folio *folio; int refs; if (!pud_access_permitted(orig, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) return 0; if (pud_devmap(orig)) { if (unlikely(flags & FOLL_LONGTERM)) return 0; return __gup_device_huge_pud(orig, pudp, addr, end, flags, pages, nr); } page = nth_page(pud_page(orig), (addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); refs = record_subpages(page, addr, end, pages + *nr); folio = try_grab_folio(page, refs, flags); if (!folio) return 0; if (unlikely(pud_val(orig) != pud_val(*pudp))) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!pud_write(orig) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, &folio->page)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } *nr += refs; folio_set_referenced(folio); return 1; } static int gup_huge_pgd(pgd_t orig, pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { int refs; struct page *page; struct folio *folio; if (!pgd_access_permitted(orig, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) return 0; BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_devmap(orig)); page = nth_page(pgd_page(orig), (addr & ~PGDIR_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); refs = record_subpages(page, addr, end, pages + *nr); folio = try_grab_folio(page, refs, flags); if (!folio) return 0; if (unlikely(pgd_val(orig) != pgd_val(*pgdp))) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!pgd_write(orig) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, &folio->page)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) { gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags); return 0; } *nr += refs; folio_set_referenced(folio); return 1; } static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long next; pmd_t *pmdp; pmdp = pmd_offset_lockless(pudp, pud, addr); do { pmd_t pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp); next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); if (!pmd_present(pmd)) return 0; if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(pmd) || pmd_huge(pmd) || pmd_devmap(pmd))) { /* See gup_pte_range() */ if (pmd_protnone(pmd)) return 0; if (!gup_huge_pmd(pmd, pmdp, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } else if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(pmd_val(pmd))))) { /* * architecture have different format for hugetlbfs * pmd format and THP pmd format */ if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(pmd_val(pmd)), addr, PMD_SHIFT, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } else if (!gup_pte_range(pmd, pmdp, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } while (pmdp++, addr = next, addr != end); return 1; } static int gup_pud_range(p4d_t *p4dp, p4d_t p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long next; pud_t *pudp; pudp = pud_offset_lockless(p4dp, p4d, addr); do { pud_t pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp); next = pud_addr_end(addr, end); if (unlikely(!pud_present(pud))) return 0; if (unlikely(pud_huge(pud) || pud_devmap(pud))) { if (!gup_huge_pud(pud, pudp, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } else if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(pud_val(pud))))) { if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(pud_val(pud)), addr, PUD_SHIFT, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } else if (!gup_pmd_range(pudp, pud, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } while (pudp++, addr = next, addr != end); return 1; } static int gup_p4d_range(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long next; p4d_t *p4dp; p4dp = p4d_offset_lockless(pgdp, pgd, addr); do { p4d_t p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp); next = p4d_addr_end(addr, end); if (p4d_none(p4d)) return 0; BUILD_BUG_ON(p4d_huge(p4d)); if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(p4d_val(p4d))))) { if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(p4d_val(p4d)), addr, P4D_SHIFT, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } else if (!gup_pud_range(p4dp, p4d, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return 0; } while (p4dp++, addr = next, addr != end); return 1; } static void gup_pgd_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { unsigned long next; pgd_t *pgdp; pgdp = pgd_offset(current->mm, addr); do { pgd_t pgd = READ_ONCE(*pgdp); next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end); if (pgd_none(pgd)) return; if (unlikely(pgd_huge(pgd))) { if (!gup_huge_pgd(pgd, pgdp, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return; } else if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd))))) { if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd)), addr, PGDIR_SHIFT, next, flags, pages, nr)) return; } else if (!gup_p4d_range(pgdp, pgd, addr, next, flags, pages, nr)) return; } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end); } #else static inline void gup_pgd_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { }

      policy use functions for gup_huge pte policy code function above (not right above, gotta scroll probably to find it)

    3. static int internal_get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { unsigned long len, end; unsigned long nr_pinned; int locked = 0; int ret; if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET | FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_NOFAULT | FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA | FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT))) return -EINVAL; if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) mm_set_has_pinned_flag(&current->mm->flags); if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FAST_ONLY)) might_lock_read(&current->mm->mmap_lock); start = untagged_addr(start) & PAGE_MASK; len = nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT; if (check_add_overflow(start, len, &end)) return -EOVERFLOW; if (end > TASK_SIZE_MAX) return -EFAULT; if (unlikely(!access_ok((void __user *)start, len))) return -EFAULT; nr_pinned = lockless_pages_from_mm(start, end, gup_flags, pages); if (nr_pinned == nr_pages || gup_flags & FOLL_FAST_ONLY) return nr_pinned; /* Slow path: try to get the remaining pages with get_user_pages */ start += nr_pinned << PAGE_SHIFT; pages += nr_pinned; ret = __gup_longterm_locked(current->mm, start, nr_pages - nr_pinned, pages, &locked, gup_flags | FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE); if (ret < 0) { /* * The caller has to unpin the pages we already pinned so * returning -errno is not an option */ if (nr_pinned) return nr_pinned; return ret; } return ret + nr_pinned; } /** * get_user_pages_fast_only() - pin user pages in memory * @start: starting user address * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin * @gup_flags: flags modifying pin behaviour * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. * Should be at least nr_pages long. * * Like get_user_pages_fast() except it's IRQ-safe in that it won't fall back to * the regular GUP. * * If the architecture does not support this function, simply return with no * pages pinned. * * Careful, careful! COW breaking can go either way, so a non-write * access can get ambiguous page results. If you call this function without * 'write' set, you'd better be sure that you're ok with that ambiguity. */ int get_user_pages_fast_only(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { /* * Internally (within mm/gup.c), gup fast variants must set FOLL_GET, * because gup fast is always a "pin with a +1 page refcount" request. * * FOLL_FAST_ONLY is required in order to match the API description of * this routine: no fall back to regular ("slow") GUP. */ if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_GET | FOLL_FAST_ONLY)) return -EINVAL; return internal_get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast_only); /** * get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory * @start: starting user address * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin * @gup_flags: flags modifying pin behaviour * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. * Should be at least nr_pages long. * * Attempt to pin user pages in memory without taking mm->mmap_lock. * If not successful, it will fall back to taking the lock and * calling get_user_pages(). * * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number requested. * If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages were pinned, returns * -errno. */ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { /* * The caller may or may not have explicitly set FOLL_GET; either way is * OK. However, internally (within mm/gup.c), gup fast variants must set * FOLL_GET, because gup fast is always a "pin with a +1 page refcount" * request. */ if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_GET)) return -EINVAL; return internal_get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast); /** * pin_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory without taking locks * * @start: starting user address * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin * @gup_flags: flags modifying pin behaviour * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. * Should be at least nr_pages long. * * Nearly the same as get_user_pages_fast(), except that FOLL_PIN is set. See * get_user_pages_fast() for documentation on the function arguments, because * the arguments here are identical. * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for further details. * * Note that if a zero_page is amongst the returned pages, it will not have * pins in it and unpin_user_page() will not remove pins from it. */ int pin_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_PIN)) return -EINVAL; return internal_get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pin_user_pages_fast); /** * pin_user_pages_remote() - pin pages of a remote process * * @mm: mm_struct of target mm * @start: starting user address * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin * @gup_flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. * Should be at least nr_pages long. * @locked: pointer to lock flag indicating whether lock is held and * subsequently whether VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality can be * utilised. Lock must initially be held. * * Nearly the same as get_user_pages_remote(), except that FOLL_PIN is set. See * get_user_pages_remote() for documentation on the function arguments, because * the arguments here are identical. * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details. * * Note that if a zero_page is amongst the returned pages, it will not have * pins in it and unpin_user_page*() will not remove pins from it. */ long pin_user_pages_remote(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked) { int local_locked = 1; if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, locked, &gup_flags, FOLL_PIN | FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_REMOTE)) return 0; return __gup_longterm_locked(mm, start, nr_pages, pages, locked ? locked : &local_locked, gup_flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(pin_user_pages_remote); /** * pin_user_pages() - pin user pages in memory for use by other devices * * @start: starting user address * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin * @gup_flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. * Should be at least nr_pages long. * * Nearly the same as get_user_pages(), except that FOLL_TOUCH is not set, and * FOLL_PIN is set. * * FOLL_PIN means that the pages must be released via unpin_user_page(). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details. * * Note that if a zero_page is amongst the returned pages, it will not have * pins in it and unpin_user_page*() will not remove pins from it. */ long pin_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { int locked = 1; if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_PIN)) return 0; return __gup_longterm_locked(current->mm, start, nr_pages, pages, &locked, gup_flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(pin_user_pages); /* * pin_user_pages_unlocked() is the FOLL_PIN variant of * get_user_pages_unlocked(). Behavior is the same, except that this one sets * FOLL_PIN and rejects FOLL_GET. * * Note that if a zero_page is amongst the returned pages, it will not have * pins in it and unpin_user_page*() will not remove pins from it. */ long pin_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags) { int locked = 0; if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_PIN | FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE)) return 0; return __gup_longterm_locked(current->mm, start, nr_pages, pages, &locked, gup_flags); }

      fast gup functions

    4. /** * unpin_user_pages() - release an array of gup-pinned pages. * @pages: array of pages to be marked dirty and released. * @npages: number of pages in the @pages array. * * For each page in the @pages array, release the page using unpin_user_page(). * * Please see the unpin_user_page() documentation for details. */ void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages) { unsigned long i; struct folio *folio; unsigned int nr; /* * If this WARN_ON() fires, then the system *might* be leaking pages (by * leaving them pinned), but probably not. More likely, gup/pup returned * a hard -ERRNO error to the caller, who erroneously passed it here. */ if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR_VALUE(npages))) return; sanity_check_pinned_pages(pages, npages); for (i = 0; i < npages; i += nr) { folio = gup_folio_next(pages, npages, i, &nr); gup_put_folio(folio, nr, FOLL_PIN); } }

      gup unpin function, not actual logic

    5. void unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock(struct page *page, unsigned long npages, bool make_dirty) { unsigned long i; struct folio *folio; unsigned int nr; for (i = 0; i < npages; i += nr) { folio = gup_folio_range_next(page, npages, i, &nr); if (make_dirty && !folio_test_dirty(folio)) { folio_lock(folio); folio_mark_dirty(folio); folio_unlock(folio); } gup_put_folio(folio, nr, FOLL_PIN); } }

      unpin logic but for dirty pages

    6. if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) && (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !vma->vm_ops->fault)) return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); return NULL;

      explained in comments

    7. #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL /* * Fast-gup relies on pte change detection to avoid concurrent pgtable * operations. * * To pin the page, fast-gup needs to do below in order: * (1) pin the page (by prefetching pte), then (2) check pte not changed. * * For the rest of pgtable operations where pgtable updates can be racy * with fast-gup, we need to do (1) clear pte, then (2) check whether page * is pinned. * * Above will work for all pte-level operations, including THP split. * * For THP collapse, it's a bit more complicated because fast-gup may be * walking a pgtable page that is being freed (pte is still valid but pmd * can be cleared already). To avoid race in such condition, we need to * also check pmd here to make sure pmd doesn't change (corresponds to * pmdp_collapse_flush() in the THP collapse code path). */ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { struct dev_pagemap *pgmap = NULL; int nr_start = *nr, ret = 0; pte_t *ptep, *ptem; ptem = ptep = pte_offset_map(&pmd, addr); if (!ptep) return 0; do { pte_t pte = ptep_get_lockless(ptep); struct page *page; struct folio *folio; /* * Always fallback to ordinary GUP on PROT_NONE-mapped pages: * pte_access_permitted() better should reject these pages * either way: otherwise, GUP-fast might succeed in * cases where ordinary GUP would fail due to VMA access * permissions. */ if (pte_protnone(pte)) goto pte_unmap; if (!pte_access_permitted(pte, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) goto pte_unmap; if (pte_devmap(pte)) { if (unlikely(flags & FOLL_LONGTERM)) goto pte_unmap; pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pte_pfn(pte), pgmap); if (unlikely(!pgmap)) { undo_dev_pagemap(nr, nr_start, flags, pages); goto pte_unmap; } } else if (pte_special(pte)) goto pte_unmap; VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte))); page = pte_page(pte); folio = try_grab_folio(page, 1, flags); if (!folio) goto pte_unmap; if (unlikely(folio_is_secretmem(folio))) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } if (unlikely(pmd_val(pmd) != pmd_val(*pmdp)) || unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(ptep_get(ptep)))) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } if (!pte_write(pte) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, page)) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } /* * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are * going to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for * details. */ if (flags & FOLL_PIN) { ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page); if (ret) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } } folio_set_referenced(folio); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; } while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); ret = 1; pte_unmap: if (pgmap) put_dev_pagemap(pgmap); pte_unmap(ptem); return ret; } #else /* * If we can't determine whether or not a pte is special, then fail immediately * for ptes. Note, we can still pin HugeTLB and THP as these are guaranteed not * to be special. * * For a futex to be placed on a THP tail page, get_futex_key requires a * get_user_pages_fast_only implementation that can pin pages. Thus it's still * useful to have gup_huge_pmd even if we can't operate on ptes. */ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages, int *nr) { return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL */

      non concurrent fast gup approach that checks for pinned page and unmaps pte or clears it

    8. #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP /* * Used in the GUP-fast path to determine whether a pin is permitted for a * specific folio. * * This call assumes the caller has pinned the folio, that the lowest page table * level still points to this folio, and that interrupts have been disabled. * * Writing to pinned file-backed dirty tracked folios is inherently problematic * (see comment describing the writable_file_mapping_allowed() function). We * therefore try to avoid the most egregious case of a long-term mapping doing * so. * * This function cannot be as thorough as that one as the VMA is not available * in the fast path, so instead we whitelist known good cases and if in doubt, * fall back to the slow path. */ static bool folio_fast_pin_allowed(struct folio *folio, unsigned int flags) { struct address_space *mapping; unsigned long mapping_flags; /* * If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. A long term * pin is the most egregious case so this is the one we disallow. */ if ((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE)) != (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE)) return true; /* The folio is pinned, so we can safely access folio fields. */ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_slab(folio))) return false; /* hugetlb mappings do not require dirty-tracking. */ if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) return true; /* * GUP-fast disables IRQs. When IRQS are disabled, RCU grace periods * cannot proceed, which means no actions performed under RCU can * proceed either. * * inodes and thus their mappings are freed under RCU, which means the * mapping cannot be freed beneath us and thus we can safely dereference * it. */ lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); /* * However, there may be operations which _alter_ the mapping, so ensure * we read it once and only once. */ mapping = READ_ONCE(folio->mapping); /* * The mapping may have been truncated, in any case we cannot determine * if this mapping is safe - fall back to slow path to determine how to * proceed. */ if (!mapping) return false; /* Anonymous folios pose no problem. */ mapping_flags = (unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS; if (mapping_flags) return mapping_flags & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON; /* * At this point, we know the mapping is non-null and points to an * address_space object. The only remaining whitelisted file system is * shmem. */ return shmem_mapping(mapping); }

      policy logic. avoids locks unlike get user pages unlocked/locked which seems risky so its not supposed to be used on concurrent gup logic

    9. long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages) { int locked = 1; if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, NULL, &gup_flags, FOLL_TOUCH)) return -EINVAL; return __get_user_pages_locked(current->mm, start, nr_pages, pages, &locked, gup_flags); }

      policy logic.

    10. static void __maybe_unused undo_dev_pagemap(int *nr, int nr_start, unsigned int flags, struct page **pages) { while ((*nr) - nr_start) { struct page *page = pages[--(*nr)]; ClearPageReferenced(page); if (flags & FOLL_PIN) unpin_user_page(page); else put_page(page); } }

      policy use function that undoes mapping

    11. #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION /* * Returns the number of collected pages. Return value is always >= 0. */ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_pages( struct list_head *movable_page_list, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **pages) { unsigned long i, collected = 0; struct folio *prev_folio = NULL; bool drain_allow = true; for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]); if (folio == prev_folio) continue; prev_folio = folio; if (folio_is_longterm_pinnable(folio)) continue; collected++; if (folio_is_device_coherent(folio)) continue; if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) { isolate_hugetlb(folio, movable_page_list); continue; } if (!folio_test_lru(folio) && drain_allow) { lru_add_drain_all(); drain_allow = false; } if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio)) continue; list_add_tail(&folio->lru, movable_page_list); node_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + folio_is_file_lru(folio), folio_nr_pages(folio)); } return collected; }
    12. #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr) { struct page *page; int locked = 0; int ret; ret = __get_user_pages_locked(current->mm, addr, 1, &page, &locked, FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET); return (ret == 1) ? page : NULL; } #endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */

      part of policy use code likely

    13. int __mm_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long len, int ignore_errors) { struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; unsigned long end, nstart, nend; struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL; int locked = 0; long ret = 0; end = start + len; for (nstart = start; nstart < end; nstart = nend) { /* * We want to fault in pages for [nstart; end) address range. * Find first corresponding VMA. */ if (!locked) { locked = 1; mmap_read_lock(mm); vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, nstart, end); } else if (nstart >= vma->vm_end) vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, vma->vm_end, end); if (!vma) break; /* * Set [nstart; nend) to intersection of desired address * range with the first VMA. Also, skip undesirable VMA types. */ nend = min(end, vma->vm_end); if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) continue; if (nstart < vma->vm_start) nstart = vma->vm_start; /* * Now fault in a range of pages. populate_vma_page_range() * double checks the vma flags, so that it won't mlock pages * if the vma was already munlocked. */ ret = populate_vma_page_range(vma, nstart, nend, &locked); if (ret < 0) { if (ignore_errors) { ret = 0; continue; /* continue at next VMA */ } break; } nend = nstart + ret * PAGE_SIZE; ret = 0; } if (locked) mmap_read_unlock(mm); return ret; /* 0 or negative error code */ }

      policy use function that populates pages like the func before this.

    14. long populate_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int *locked) { struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; unsigned long nr_pages = (end - start) / PAGE_SIZE; int local_locked = 1; int gup_flags; long ret; VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(start)); VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(end)); VM_BUG_ON_VMA(start < vma->vm_start, vma); VM_BUG_ON_VMA(end > vma->vm_end, vma); mmap_assert_locked(mm); /* * Rightly or wrongly, the VM_LOCKONFAULT case has never used * faultin_page() to break COW, so it has no work to do here. */ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKONFAULT) return nr_pages; gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH; /* * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing. */ if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE) gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE; /* * We want mlock to succeed for regions that have any permissions * other than PROT_NONE. */ if (vma_is_accessible(vma)) gup_flags |= FOLL_FORCE; if (locked) gup_flags |= FOLL_UNLOCKABLE; /* * We made sure addr is within a VMA, so the following will * not result in a stack expansion that recurses back here. */ ret = __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, gup_flags, NULL, locked ? locked : &local_locked); lru_add_drain(); return ret; }

      policy use code.

    15. long get_user_pages_remote(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages, int *locked) { int local_locked = 1; if (!is_valid_gup_args(pages, locked, &gup_flags, FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_REMOTE)) return -EINVAL; return __get_user_pages_locked(mm, start, nr_pages, pages, locked ? locked : &local_locked, gup_flags); }

      policy logic

    16. static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **pages, int *locked, unsigned int flags) { long ret, pages_done; bool must_unlock = false; /* * The internal caller expects GUP to manage the lock internally and the * lock must be released when this returns. */ if (!*locked) { if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm)) return -EAGAIN; must_unlock = true; *locked = 1; } else mmap_assert_locked(mm); if (flags & FOLL_PIN) mm_set_has_pinned_flag(&mm->flags); /* * FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET are mutually exclusive. Traditional behavior * is to set FOLL_GET if the caller wants pages[] filled in (but has * carelessly failed to specify FOLL_GET), so keep doing that, but only * for FOLL_GET, not for the newer FOLL_PIN. * * FOLL_PIN always expects pages to be non-null, but no need to assert * that here, as any failures will be obvious enough. */ if (pages && !(flags & FOLL_PIN)) flags |= FOLL_GET; pages_done = 0; for (;;) { ret = __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, flags, pages, locked); if (!(flags & FOLL_UNLOCKABLE)) { /* VM_FAULT_RETRY couldn't trigger, bypass */ pages_done = ret; break; } /* VM_FAULT_RETRY or VM_FAULT_COMPLETED cannot return errors */ if (!*locked) { BUG_ON(ret < 0); BUG_ON(ret >= nr_pages); } if (ret > 0) { nr_pages -= ret; pages_done += ret; if (!nr_pages) break; } if (*locked) { /* * VM_FAULT_RETRY didn't trigger or it was a * FOLL_NOWAIT. */ if (!pages_done) pages_done = ret; break; } /* * VM_FAULT_RETRY triggered, so seek to the faulting offset. * For the prefault case (!pages) we only update counts. */ if (likely(pages)) pages += ret; start += ret << PAGE_SHIFT; /* The lock was temporarily dropped, so we must unlock later */ must_unlock = true; retry: /* * Repeat on the address that fired VM_FAULT_RETRY * with both FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and * FAULT_FLAG_TRIED. Note that GUP can be interrupted * by fatal signals of even common signals, depending on * the caller's request. So we need to check it before we * start trying again otherwise it can loop forever. */ if (gup_signal_pending(flags)) { if (!pages_done) pages_done = -EINTR; break; } ret = mmap_read_lock_killable(mm); if (ret) { BUG_ON(ret > 0); if (!pages_done) pages_done = ret; break; } *locked = 1; ret = __get_user_pages(mm, start, 1, flags | FOLL_TRIED, pages, locked); if (!*locked) { /* Continue to retry until we succeeded */ BUG_ON(ret != 0); goto retry; } if (ret != 1) { BUG_ON(ret > 1); if (!pages_done) pages_done = ret; break; } nr_pages--; pages_done++; if (!nr_pages) break; if (likely(pages)) pages++; start += PAGE_SIZE; } if (must_unlock && *locked) { /* * We either temporarily dropped the lock, or the caller * requested that we both acquire and drop the lock. Either way, * we must now unlock, and notify the caller of that state. */ mmap_read_unlock(mm); *locked = 0; } return pages_done; }

      same as gup but sets/unsets mmap_lock

    17. if (!(flags & FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE)) return false;

      fatal fault signal handler

    18. int fixup_user_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned int fault_flags, bool *unlocked) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; vm_fault_t ret; address = untagged_addr_remote(mm, address); if (unlocked) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE; retry: vma = gup_vma_lookup(mm, address); if (!vma) return -EFAULT; if (!vma_permits_fault(vma, fault_flags)) return -EFAULT; if ((fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE) && fatal_signal_pending(current)) return -EINTR; ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, fault_flags, NULL); if (ret & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED) { /* * NOTE: it's a pity that we need to retake the lock here * to pair with the unlock() in the callers. Ideally we * could tell the callers so they do not need to unlock. */ mmap_read_lock(mm); *unlocked = true; return 0; } if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) { int err = vm_fault_to_errno(ret, 0); if (err) return err; BUG(); } if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) { mmap_read_lock(mm); *unlocked = true; fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED; goto retry; } return 0; }

      resolves user page fault. policy logic

    19. 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

    20. #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP return vma_lookup(mm, addr); #else static volatile unsigned long next_warn; struct vm_area_struct *vma; unsigned long now, next; vma = find_vma(mm, addr); if (!vma || (addr >= vma->vm_start)) return vma; /* Only warn for half-way relevant accesses */ if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) return NULL; if (vma->vm_start - addr > 65536) return NULL; /* Let's not warn more than once an hour.. */ now = jiffies; next = next_warn; if (next && time_before(now, next)) return NULL; next_warn = now + 60*60*HZ; /* Let people know things may have changed. */ pr_warn("GUP no longer grows the stack in %s (%d): %lx-%lx (%lx)\n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, addr); dump_stack(); return NULL;

      helper func to lookup vma(virtual mem area) that warns per hour about half way relevant acc and changes in stack

    21. static bool writable_file_mapping_allowed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags) { /* * If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. A long term * pin is the most egregious case so this is the case we disallow. */ if ((gup_flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM)) != (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM)) return true; /* * If the VMA does not require dirty tracking then no problematic write * can occur either. */ return !vma_needs_dirty_tracking(vma); }

      Def policy code. checks if we can write to a map

    22. if (*flags & FOLL_NOFAULT) return -EFAULT; if (*flags & FOLL_WRITE) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE; if (*flags & FOLL_REMOTE) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE; if (*flags & FOLL_UNLOCKABLE) { fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE; /* * FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE is opt-in. GUP callers must set * FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE to enable FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE. * That's because some callers may not be prepared to * handle early exits caused by non-fatal signals. */ if (*flags & FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE; } if (*flags & FOLL_NOWAIT) fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT; if (*flags & FOLL_TRIED) { /* * Note: FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and FAULT_FLAG_TRIED * can co-exist */ fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED; } if (unshare) { fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE; /* FAULT_FLAG_WRITE and FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE are incompatible */ VM_BUG_ON(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE); } ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, fault_flags, NULL); if (ret & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED) { /* * With FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT we'll never release the * mmap lock in the page fault handler. Sanity check this. */ WARN_ON_ONCE(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT); *locked = 0; /* * We should do the same as VM_FAULT_RETRY, but let's not * return -EBUSY since that's not reflecting the reality of * what has happened - we've just fully completed a page * fault, with the mmap lock released. Use -EAGAIN to show * that we want to take the mmap lock _again_. */ return -EAGAIN; } if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) { int err = vm_fault_to_errno(ret, *flags); if (err) return err; BUG(); } if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) { if (!(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) *locked = 0; return -EBUSY; }

      Seems it's just setting flags for page faults based on flags param

    23. /* user gate pages are read-only */ if (gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE) return -EFAULT; if (address > TASK_SIZE) pgd = pgd_offset_k(address); else pgd = pgd_offset_gate(mm, address); if (pgd_none(*pgd)) return -EFAULT; p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, address); if (p4d_none(*p4d)) return -EFAULT; pud = pud_offset(p4d, address); if (pud_none(*pud)) return -EFAULT; pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address); if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) return -EFAULT; pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address); if (!pte) return -EFAULT; entry = ptep_get(pte); if (pte_none(entry)) goto unmap; *vma = get_gate_vma(mm); if (!page) goto out; *page = vm_normal_page(*vma, address, entry); if (!*page) { if ((gup_flags & FOLL_DUMP) || !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(entry))) goto unmap; *page = pte_page(entry); } ret = try_grab_page(*page, gup_flags); if (unlikely(ret)) goto unmap;

      Most of these seem like sanity checks right up until line 897 i.e, 'if(!page)'* after which we seem to unmap the page.

    24. static struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, unsigned int flags, struct follow_page_context *ctx) { pgd_t *pgd; struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; ctx->page_mask = 0; /* * Call hugetlb_follow_page_mask for hugetlb vmas as it will use * special hugetlb page table walking code. This eliminates the * need to check for hugetlb entries in the general walking code. */ if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) return hugetlb_follow_page_mask(vma, address, flags, &ctx->page_mask); pgd = pgd_offset(mm, address); if (pgd_none(*pgd) || unlikely(pgd_bad(*pgd))) return no_page_table(vma, flags); return follow_p4d_mask(vma, address, pgd, flags, ctx); }

      places mask after following page into pte

    25. struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, unsigned int foll_flags) { struct follow_page_context ctx = { NULL }; struct page *page; if (vma_is_secretmem(vma)) return NULL; if (WARN_ON_ONCE(foll_flags & FOLL_PIN)) return NULL; /* * We never set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT because callers don't expect * to fail on PROT_NONE-mapped pages. */ page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx); if (ctx.pgmap) put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap); return page; }

      finds page

    26. if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT_PMD) { spin_unlock(ptl); split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address); /* If pmd was left empty, stuff a page table in there quickly */ return pte_alloc(mm, pmd) ? ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) : follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap); } page = follow_trans_huge_pmd(vma, address, pmd, flags); spin_unlock(ptl); ctx->page_mask = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1; return page;

      we're finding the page again but storing page mask in ctx

    27. if (likely(!pmd_trans_huge(pmdval))) return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap); if (pmd_protnone(pmdval) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(vma, flags)) return no_page_table(vma, flags); ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); if (unlikely(!pmd_present(*pmd))) { spin_unlock(ptl); return no_page_table(vma, flags); } if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) { spin_unlock(ptl); return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap); }

      branch prediction to check if pmd is there and if it's big

    28. if (pmd_none(pmdval)) return no_page_table(vma, flags); if (!pmd_present(pmdval)) return no_page_table(vma, flags); if (pmd_devmap(pmdval)) { ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); page = follow_devmap_pmd(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap); spin_unlock(ptl); if (page) return page; }

      checks if pmd is there. im assuming it's page middle dir.

    29. /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */ if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) == (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET))) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl); if (!ptep) return no_page_table(vma, flags); pte = ptep_get(ptep); if (!pte_present(pte)) goto no_page; if (pte_protnone(pte) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(vma, flags)) goto no_page; page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte); /* * We only care about anon pages in can_follow_write_pte() and don't * have to worry about pte_devmap() because they are never anon. */ if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !can_follow_write_pte(pte, page, vma, flags)) { page = NULL; goto out; } if (!page && pte_devmap(pte) && (flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))) { /* * Only return device mapping pages in the FOLL_GET or FOLL_PIN * case since they are only valid while holding the pgmap * reference. */ *pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pte_pfn(pte), *pgmap); if (*pgmap) page = pte_page(pte); else goto no_page; } else if (unlikely(!page)) { if (flags & FOLL_DUMP) { /* Avoid special (like zero) pages in core dumps */ page = ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); goto out; } if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) { page = pte_page(pte); } else { ret = follow_pfn_pte(vma, address, ptep, flags); page = ERR_PTR(ret); goto out; } } if (!pte_write(pte) && gup_must_unshare(vma, flags, page)) { page = ERR_PTR(-EMLINK); goto out; } VM_BUG_ON_PAGE((flags & FOLL_PIN) && PageAnon(page) && !PageAnonExclusive(page), page); /* try_grab_page() does nothing unless FOLL_GET or FOLL_PIN is set. */ ret = try_grab_page(page, flags); if (unlikely(ret)) { page = ERR_PTR(ret); goto out; } /* * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are going * to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please see * Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details. */ if (flags & FOLL_PIN) { ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page); if (ret) { unpin_user_page(page); page = ERR_PTR(ret); goto out; } } if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) { if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_dirty(pte) && !PageDirty(page)) set_page_dirty(page); /* * pte_mkyoung() would be more correct here, but atomic care * is needed to avoid losing the dirty bit: it is easier to use * mark_page_accessed(). */ mark_page_accessed(page); }

      finds page in pte. Judging by the complexity of the logic this is most likely policy code because we're literally getting user page

    30. if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) { pte_t orig_entry = ptep_get(pte); pte_t entry = orig_entry; if (flags & FOLL_WRITE) entry = pte_mkdirty(entry); entry = pte_mkyoung(entry); if (!pte_same(orig_entry, entry)) { set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pte, entry); update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pte); }

      uses pte to mark dirty pages and finds pfn in pte

    31. void unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages, bool make_dirty) { unsigned long i; struct folio *folio; unsigned int nr; if (!make_dirty) { unpin_user_pages(pages, npages); return; } sanity_check_pinned_pages(pages, npages); for (i = 0; i < npages; i += nr) { folio = gup_folio_next(pages, npages, i, &nr); /* * Checking PageDirty at this point may race with * clear_page_dirty_for_io(), but that's OK. Two key * cases: * * 1) This code sees the page as already dirty, so it * skips the call to set_page_dirty(). That could happen * because clear_page_dirty_for_io() called * page_mkclean(), followed by set_page_dirty(). * However, now the page is going to get written back, * which meets the original intention of setting it * dirty, so all is well: clear_page_dirty_for_io() goes * on to call TestClearPageDirty(), and write the page * back. * * 2) This code sees the page as clean, so it calls * set_page_dirty(). The page stays dirty, despite being * written back, so it gets written back again in the * next writeback cycle. This is harmless. */ if (!folio_test_dirty(folio)) { folio_lock(folio); folio_mark_dirty(folio); folio_unlock(folio); } gup_put_folio(folio, nr, FOLL_PIN); } }

      unpins and dirties page

    32. static inline struct folio *gup_folio_next(struct page **list, unsigned long npages, unsigned long i, unsigned int *ntails) { struct folio *folio = page_folio(list[i]); unsigned int nr; for (nr = i + 1; nr < npages; nr++) { if (page_folio(list[nr]) != folio) break; } *ntails = nr - i; return folio; }

      gets folio of next page along with reference to end of folio

    33. static inline struct folio *gup_folio_range_next(struct page *start, unsigned long npages, unsigned long i, unsigned int *ntails) { struct page *next = nth_page(start, i); struct folio *folio = page_folio(next); unsigned int nr = 1; if (folio_test_large(folio)) nr = min_t(unsigned int, npages - i, folio_nr_pages(folio) - folio_page_idx(folio, next)); *ntails = nr; return folio; }

      gets the folio of the next page from start to 'i' range. also gets the tail folio/reference

    34. folio_ref_add(folio, GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS);

      function for adding reference

    35. void unpin_user_page(struct page *page) { sanity_check_pinned_pages(&page, 1); gup_put_folio(page_folio(page), 1, FOLL_PIN); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_page);

      actual policy use logic

    36. struct folio *folio = page_folio(page); if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) <= 0)) return -ENOMEM; if (unlikely(!(flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA) && is_pci_p2pdma_page(page))) return -EREMOTEIO; if (flags & FOLL_GET) folio_ref_inc(folio);

      checks for code that is involved in policy but is not the actual logic

    37. else if (flags & FOLL_PIN) { /* * Don't take a pin on the zero page - it's not going anywhere * and it is used in a *lot* of places. */ if (is_zero_page(page)) return 0; /* * Similar to try_grab_folio(): be sure to *also* * increment the normal page refcount field at least once, * so that the page really is pinned. */ if (folio_test_large(folio)) { folio_ref_add(folio, 1); atomic_add(1, &folio->_pincount); } else { folio_ref_add(folio, GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS); } node_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FOLL_PIN_ACQUIRED, 1); }

      Logic that actually tries to grab the folio. Also policy use code and not actual policy

    38. if (!put_devmap_managed_page_refs(&folio->page, refs)) folio_put_refs(folio, refs);

      Definitely a vital and straightforward policy use section of gup that simples places a reference on the folio

    39. if (flags & FOLL_PIN) { if (is_zero_folio(folio)) return; node_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED, refs); if (folio_test_large(folio)) atomic_sub(refs, &folio->_pincount); else refs *= GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS; }

      Checks if the folio is zero/large

    40. if (folio_test_large(folio)) atomic_add(refs, &folio->_pincount); else folio_ref_add(folio, refs * (GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS - 1))

      maintaining reference counts. Part of policy logic most likely

    41. if (unlikely((flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) && !folio_is_longterm_pinnable(folio))) { if (!put_devmap_managed_page_refs(&folio->page, refs)) folio_put_refs(folio, refs); return NULL;

      checks for longterm folio pins.

    42. if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)) == 0)) return NULL; if (unlikely(!(flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA) && is_pci_p2pdma_page(page))) return NULL;

      Time saving predictions(unlikely) and single time warning func(WARN_ON_ONCE) for flags. Not actual policy logic so low confidence.

    43. if (unlikely(page_folio(page) != folio)) { if (!put_devmap_managed_page_refs(&folio->page, refs)) folio_put_refs(folio, refs); goto retry;

      Uses prediction to check if a folio still points to the page. This is part of the function that tries to retrieve the folio to confirm that it is associated with a page.

    44. folio = page_folio(page); if (WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_ref_count(folio) < 0)) return NULL; if (unlikely(!folio_ref_try_add(folio, refs))) return NULL;

      These increment the reference count for the folio since you're returning a reference of the folio. Important function so important internal logic subsequently

    45. if (is_zero_page(page) || !folio_test_anon(folio)) continue; if (!folio_test_large(folio) || folio_test_hugetlb(folio))

      Sanity checks for pinned pages wouldn't classify as policy logic but common sense pre-checks for the actual policy. But I think it's worth tagging this to gain a sense of what is not policy code

    46. if (is_zero_page(page)) return page_folio(page); folio = try_get_folio(page, refs); if (!folio) return NULL;

      Just trying to check for zero pages and trying to retrieve folios. Unlikely policy logic

    47. if (flags & FOLL_GET) return try_get_folio(page, refs);

      Policy logic that determines and tries to retrieve folios based on given flags.

    48. if (flags & FOLL_PIN) { ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page); if (ret) { gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags); goto pte_unmap; } }

      part of policy code

    49. if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM)) return __get_user_pages_locked(mm, start, nr_pages, pages, locked, gup_flags);

      policy decision to get locked page!

    50. if (page_increm > nr_pages) page_increm = nr_pages;

      next page logic

    51. */ 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; }

      page populate flag for sure

  2. Oct 2024
  3. Jul 2024
    1. The illusion of knowledge: The song questions the notion that speaking confidently on a subject equates to understanding it deeply.

      There is a need for intellectual humility within the community of researchers, and society in general. Do not speak confident about that which you do not know.

      Relation to Charlie Munger's principle.

  4. Apr 2024
    1. The Mzanzi kids multilingual language learning App was created for children between the ages of 2-6 years in South Africa. It was designed to stimulate visual, speech and language literacy skills at an early age by understanding basic everyday concepts and highlighting the correct pronunciation of speech in six (6) different languages; English, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi and Setswana. The integration of images and phonetics provides a good foundation for children to learn and speak in their mother tongue or home language with confidence and fluency, but most importantly comprehend and appreciate the diversity of languages used by South Africans. This multilingual App provides a good introduction before entering a schooling environment, and offers a non-threatening, playful and fun way of learning languages using innovative technology.

      This is an app for multilingual language learning. Mine will focus on the mother tongue.

      I tried it out for a bit and found the audio very repetitive, which could be problematic. Minecraft had such good audio - C14 or C11? It is fantastically immersive, and the popularity of the game and audio is irrefutable if you look at longevity (games come and go often, and very few manage to stick and have a continuous impact, Minecraft is a good example of an exception to this, alongside other well adjusted and designed games.

      I had fun learning the clicks in isiXhoso - something I want to practice, but the audio became too much as i hit the image repeatedly.

      There's room for more resources. This application does not speak to all children, and no one application ever will, hence the need for many across a broad range of cultures and diversities.

    1. Besides that, we're an arrogant, surly lot most often more interested in dwelling on our divine wonderfulness than we are slaving away on your lowly project.

      yes, an impeccable sense of confidence is REQUIRED in this level of success

  5. Sep 2023
    1. I'd suggest that you play around a little bit with a vanilla app. Create a brand new app without any additional files, just what rails new generates. See how bin/rails runner Models raises an error because there is no models directory in autoload_paths. Now, put config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/app) in config/application.rb and observe how bin/rails runner Models just returns a prompt. With the confidence of having that running, then transalate to your app.
  6. Jul 2023
    1. specific uses of the technology help develop what we call “relational confidence,” or the confidence that one has a close enough relationship to a colleague to ask and get needed knowledge. With greater relational confidence, knowledge sharing is more successful.
  7. Apr 2023
    1. reinforcing audio

      Audio(music and sounds) within a video presentation is a tool that can help you engage more with your audience, unfortunately it is a double edged sword. There are times when the audio can fail or be delayed, which can throw off the rhythm of your presentation as well as your confidence. Using audio for edited videos gives the user more control as they can edit the audio to their liking.

  8. Mar 2023
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    1. After the first week of the campaign, we realized what are the main problematic pillars and fixed them right away. Nevertheless, even with these improvements and strong support from the Gamefound team, we’re not even close to achieving the backer numbers with which we could safely promise to create a game of the quality we think it deserves.
    1. To be able to trustone's own experience, even if it often turns out to beinadequate, is one mark of the mature workman. Suchconfidence in o n e ' s own experience is indispensable tooriginality in any intellectual pursuit, and the file is onetool by which I have tried to develop and justify suchconfidence.

      The function of memory served by having written notes is what allows the serious researcher or thinker to have greater confidence in their work, potentially more free from cognitive bias as one idea can be directly compared and contrasted with another by direct juxtaposition.

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  15. Nov 2021
    1. teachers’ confidencein their own basic IT skills promotes positive attitudes to online learning and that peer tutoring plays animportant role in teachers’ learning
      1. Disparities caused and/or exacerbated as a result of the forced transition to online learning.
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    1. It’s fun but when would we ever use things like this in actual code?When it’s well tested, commented, documented, and becomes an understood idiom of your code base.We focus so much on black magic and avoiding it that we rarely have a chance to enjoy any of the benefits. When used responsibly and when necessary, it gives a lot of power and expressiveness.
  20. Jun 2021
  21. May 2021
    1. Approaching email development this way transitions more of the quality assurance (QA) process to the browser instead of the email client. It gives email designers more power, control, and confidence in developing an email that will render gracefully across all email clients.

      can mostly test with browser and have less need (but still not no need) to test with email client

  22. Apr 2021
    1. Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA. (2021, April 14). With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. Https://t.co/HBrI6zj9aa [Tweet]. @celinegounder. https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1382299663269761024

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    1. Final Form makes the assumption that your validation functions are "pure" or "idempotent", i.e. will always return the same result when given the same values. This is why it doesn't run the synchronous validation again (just to double check) before allowing the submission: because it's already stored the results of the last time it ran it.
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    1. The test is being marked as skipped because it has randomly failed. How much confidence do we have in that test and feature in the first place.
    2. “Make it work” means shipping something that doesn’t break. The code might be ugly and difficult to understand, but we’re delivering value to the customer and we have tests that give us confidence. Without tests, it’s hard to answer “Does this work?”
    1. The "'strict-dynamic'" source expression aims to make Content Security Policy simpler to deploy for existing applications who have a high degree of confidence in the scripts they load directly, but low confidence in their ability to provide a reasonable list of resources to load up front.
    1. Van den Akker, O., Weston, S. J., Campbell, L., Chopik, W. J., Damian, R. I., Davis-Kean, P., Hall, A. N., Kosie, J. E., Kruse, E. T., Olsen, J., Ritchie, S. J., Valentine, K. D., van ’t Veer, A. E., & Bakker, M. (2019). Preregistration of secondary data analysis: A template and tutorial [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hvfmr

  32. Apr 2020
    1. In the past, I've had people approach me with all sorts of creative means by which I could store this data and make it available to people. But no matter how good a crypto solution I come up with, being able to hand-on-heart say "I don't store passwords in HIBP" is enormously important. Not "I store them but I've been really, really, really careful with them" because that always leaves an element of doubt in people's minds.
  33. Mar 2020
    1. Melting glaciers reveal LOST island in Antarctica – and humans are already visiting it

      Overall scientific credibility: 'low' according to the scientists who analyzed this article.

      evaluation card

      Find more details in Climate Feedback's analysis

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    1. Because they're more integrated and try to serialize an incomplete system (e.g. one with some kind of side effects: from browser/library/runtime versions to environment to database/API changes), they will tend to have high false-negatives (failing test for which the production code is actually fine and the test just needs to be changed). False negatives quickly erode the team's trust in a test to actually find bugs and instead come to be seen as a chore on a checklist they need to satisfy before they can move on to the next thing.
    1. But isn't the point of testing to be confident the application works? Who cares if your unit works if the app is broken? I definitely want to know if the third party component I'm using breaks my use case. I mean, I'm not going to rewrite their entire test base, but if I can easily test my use case by not mocking out their component then why not do that and get the extra confidence?
    2. So finally I'm coming out with it and explaining why I never use shallow rendering and why I think nobody else should either. Here's my main assertion:With shallow rendering, I can refactor my component's implementation and my tests break. With shallow rendering, I can break my application and my tests say everything's still working.This is highly concerning to me because not only does it make testing frustrating, but it also lulls you into a false sense of security. The reason I write tests is to be confident that my application works and there are far better ways to do that than shallow rendering.
    1. We're not just fast, we know where we're going.
    2. You’ll rest easy at night, knowing that the proper amount of automated test coverage is in place and protecting your product from unintentional breakage.
    1. You want to write maintainable tests for your React components. As a part of this goal, you want your tests to avoid including implementation details of your components and rather focus on making your tests give you the confidence for which they are intended. As part of this, you want your testbase to be maintainable in the long run so refactors of your components (changes to implementation but not functionality) don't break your tests and slow you and your team down.
    2. The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.
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    1. This page describes a method of teaching designed specifically for adults. The instructional design theory is Keller's "ARCS," which stands for attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction--all features that adult learning experiences should be characterized by. The text on this page is readable but the popups and graphics are a bit annoying. rating 3/5

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  40. Nov 2018
    1. Learning Confidence Sets using Support Vector Machines

      也是一篇讨论“置信度”的文章。将二分类问题转化为一个分别独立的“三分类”问题,且分类边界可学习,而边界的取定用 SVM。文章里似乎有不少详尽的数学理论推导,值得练手推推看~

    2. Inhibited Softmax for Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks

      这种关乎网络“置信度confidence”或者叫“不确定度uncentainty”的 paper 还是挺有意义的,虽然现在还是婆说婆有理的阶段。文内综述了很多 Related 工作,还是挺值得 mark 下的。作者提的Inhibited Softmax蛮好理解的,另repo里放了不少ipynb文档[good]。

    3. Learning Confidence for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Neural Networks

      此文对我来说,值得好好看一看~

      关键在于最后一层处,并行的多安排了一层表示学习confidence 的输出层。不过,总觉得这种操作很片面,有点以偏概全~

    1. blog is called Rebecca’s Pocket. In her oft-cited essay “Weblogs: a history and perspective”, she writes about how blogging not only helped her gain knowledge about herself and her own interests, blogging actually led her to value more highly her own opinion and her own point of view. Partly, this was because she carefully considered her ideas as she wrote.

      This demonstrates how blogging is one of those informal yet vital places where people become great writers.

  41. Jul 2018
    1. This result is consistent with analysis by the data science team at Quora, a site where users ask and answer questions. That team found that women use uncertain words and phrases more often than men do, even when they are just as confident.
  42. Jul 2016
    1. You might even notice that your confidence isn’t the only thing that goes up, this was my first step in growing internally, and you’ll find that in the end Social Development isn’t just about learning to talk to other people, it’s a deep discovery about who you truly are.
    2. Basically it makes you go from walking in a mild pace towards your goals to sprinting at them full speed with a rocket pack strapped to your back!
    3. Self-Acceptance + Self Assurance = Confidence
  43. Jan 2016
    1. I am now viewing the "Workman's Sandwich" and wondering what it would take humankind to provide the WorkWOMAN's Sandwich... Ladies on the job deserve just as much roast beef as any male laborer. If I may, I'd like to propose an ideal sandwich: it would include the contents of; Cheese churned from the breast milk of strong, independent mothers, Turkey of the female farmer's land, and mustard from a female CEO-owned grocery store on Wall Street.

  44. Oct 2013
    1. Let reading, therefore, be at first sure, then continuous, and for a long time slow, until, by exercise, a correct quickness is gained.

      learning at their own pace and building confidence along the way.

    1. we believe that we cannot and shall not fail, or that we shall succeed completely

      confidence is key to success

    2. Confidence is, about what things we feel it, and under what conditions. It is the opposite of fear, and what causes it is the opposite of what causes fear; it is, therefore, the expectation associated with a mental picture of the nearness of what keeps us safe and the absence or remoteness of what is terrible: it may be due either to the near presence of what inspires confidence or to the absence of what causes alarm.
    1. the three, namely, that induce us to believe a thing apart from any proof of it: good sense, good moral character, and goodwill

      these things are confidence builders