gup.c

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>

#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>

#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>

#include "internal.h"

static struct page *no_page_table(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned int flags)
{
	/*
	 * When core dumping an enormous anonymous area that nobody
	 * has touched so far, we don't want to allocate unnecessary pages or
	 * page tables.  Return error instead of NULL to skip handle_mm_fault,
	 * then get_dump_page() will return NULL to leave a hole in the dump.
	 * But we can only make this optimization where a hole would surely
	 * be zero-filled if handle_mm_fault() actually did handle it.
	 */
	if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) && (!vma->vm_ops || !vma->vm_ops->fault))
		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
	return NULL;
}

static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
	struct page *page;
	spinlock_t *ptl;
	pte_t *ptep, pte;

retry:
	if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);

	ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
	pte = *ptep;
	if (!pte_present(pte)) {
		swp_entry_t entry;
		/*
		 * KSM's break_ksm() relies upon recognizing a ksm page
		 * even while it is being migrated, so for that case we
		 * need migration_entry_wait().
		 */
		if (likely(!(flags & FOLL_MIGRATION)))
			goto no_page;
		if (pte_none(pte))
			goto no_page;
		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
		if (!is_migration_entry(entry))
			goto no_page;
		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
		migration_entry_wait(mm, pmd, address);
		goto retry;
	}
	if ((flags & FOLL_NUMA) && pte_numa(pte))
		goto no_page;
	if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte)) {
		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
		return NULL;
	}

	page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte);
	if (unlikely(!page)) {
		if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) ||
		    !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
			goto bad_page;
		page = pte_page(pte);
	}

	if (flags & FOLL_GET)
		get_page_foll(page);
	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);
	}
	if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) {
		/*
		 * The preliminary mapping check is mainly to avoid the
		 * pointless overhead of lock_page on the ZERO_PAGE
		 * which might bounce very badly if there is contention.
		 *
		 * If the page is already locked, we don't need to
		 * handle it now - vmscan will handle it later if and
		 * when it attempts to reclaim the page.
		 */
		if (page->mapping && trylock_page(page)) {
			lru_add_drain();  /* push cached pages to LRU */
			/*
			 * Because we lock page here, and migration is
			 * blocked by the pte's page reference, and we
			 * know the page is still mapped, we don't even
			 * need to check for file-cache page truncation.
			 */
			mlock_vma_page(page);
			unlock_page(page);
		}
	}
	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
	return page;
bad_page:
	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
	return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);

no_page:
	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
	if (!pte_none(pte))
		return NULL;
	return no_page_table(vma, flags);
}

/**
 * follow_page_mask - look up a page descriptor from a user-virtual address
 * @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address
 * @address: virtual address to look up
 * @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
 * @page_mask: on output, *page_mask is set according to the size of the page
 *
 * @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h>
 *
 * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
 * an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented
 * by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()).
 */
struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
			      unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,
			      unsigned int *page_mask)
{
	pgd_t *pgd;
	pud_t *pud;
	pmd_t *pmd;
	spinlock_t *ptl;
	struct page *page;
	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;

	*page_mask = 0;

	page = follow_huge_addr(mm, address, flags & FOLL_WRITE);
	if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
		BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET);
		return page;
	}

	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, address);
	if (pgd_none(*pgd) || unlikely(pgd_bad(*pgd)))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);

	pud = pud_offset(pgd, address);
	if (pud_none(*pud))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);
	if (pud_huge(*pud) && vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB) {
		page = follow_huge_pud(mm, address, pud, flags);
		if (page)
			return page;
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);
	}
	if (unlikely(pud_bad(*pud)))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);

	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);
	if (pmd_huge(*pmd) && vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB) {
		page = follow_huge_pmd(mm, address, pmd, flags);
		if (page)
			return page;
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);
	}
	if ((flags & FOLL_NUMA) && pmd_numa(*pmd))
		return no_page_table(vma, flags);
	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
		if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT) {
			split_huge_page_pmd(vma, address, pmd);
			return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags);
		}
		ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
		if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
			if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd))) {
				spin_unlock(ptl);
				wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
			} else {
				page = follow_trans_huge_pmd(vma, address,
							     pmd, flags);
				spin_unlock(ptl);
				*page_mask = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1;
				return page;
			}
		} else
			spin_unlock(ptl);
	}
	return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags);
}

static int get_gate_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
		unsigned int gup_flags, struct vm_area_struct **vma,
		struct page **page)
{
	pgd_t *pgd;
	pud_t *pud;
	pmd_t *pmd;
	pte_t *pte;
	int ret = -EFAULT;

	/* 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);
	BUG_ON(pgd_none(*pgd));
	pud = pud_offset(pgd, address);
	BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud));
	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
		return -EFAULT;
	VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
	pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
	if (pte_none(*pte))
		goto unmap;
	*vma = get_gate_vma(mm);
	if (!page)
		goto out;
	*page = vm_normal_page(*vma, address, *pte);
	if (!*page) {
		if ((gup_flags & FOLL_DUMP) || !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(*pte)))
			goto unmap;
		*page = pte_page(*pte);
	}
	get_page(*page);
out:
	ret = 0;
unmap:
	pte_unmap(pte);
	return ret;
}

/*
 * mmap_sem must be held on entry.  If @nonblocking != NULL and
 * *@flags does not include FOLL_NOWAIT, the mmap_sem may be released.
 * If it is, *@nonblocking will be set to 0 and -EBUSY returned.
 */
static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned long address, unsigned int *flags, int *nonblocking)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
	unsigned int fault_flags = 0;
	int ret;

	/* For mlock, just skip the stack guard page. */
	if ((*flags & FOLL_MLOCK) &&
			(stack_guard_page_start(vma, address) ||
			 stack_guard_page_end(vma, address + PAGE_SIZE)))
		return -ENOENT;
	if (*flags & FOLL_WRITE)
		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
	if (nonblocking)
		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
	if (*flags & FOLL_NOWAIT)
		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT;
	if (*flags & FOLL_TRIED) {
		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY);
		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
	}

	ret = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, fault_flags);
	if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) {
		if (ret & VM_FAULT_OOM)
			return -ENOMEM;
		if (ret & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE))
			return *flags & FOLL_HWPOISON ? -EHWPOISON : -EFAULT;
		if (ret & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV))
			return -EFAULT;
		BUG();
	}

	if (tsk) {
		if (ret & VM_FAULT_MAJOR)
			tsk->maj_flt++;
		else
			tsk->min_flt++;
	}

	if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
		if (nonblocking)
			*nonblocking = 0;
		return -EBUSY;
	}

	/*
	 * The VM_FAULT_WRITE bit tells us that do_wp_page has broken COW when
	 * necessary, even if maybe_mkwrite decided not to set pte_write. We
	 * can thus safely do subsequent page lookups as if they were reads.
	 * But only do so when looping for pte_write is futile: in some cases
	 * userspace may also be wanting to write to the gotten user page,
	 * which a read fault here might prevent (a readonly page might get
	 * reCOWed by userspace write).
	 */
	if ((ret & VM_FAULT_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
		*flags &= ~FOLL_WRITE;
	return 0;
}

static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags)
{
	vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;

	if (vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))
		return -EFAULT;

	if (gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE) {
		if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
			if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
				return -EFAULT;
			/*
			 * We used to let the write,force case do COW in a
			 * VM_MAYWRITE VM_SHARED !VM_WRITE vma, so ptrace could
			 * set a breakpoint in a read-only mapping of an
			 * executable, without corrupting the file (yet only
			 * when that file had been opened for writing!).
			 * Anon pages in shared mappings are surprising: now
			 * just reject it.
			 */
			if (!is_cow_mapping(vm_flags)) {
				WARN_ON_ONCE(vm_flags & VM_MAYWRITE);
				return -EFAULT;
			}
		}
	} else if (!(vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
		if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
			return -EFAULT;
		/*
		 * Is there actually any vma we can reach here which does not
		 * have VM_MAYREAD set?
		 */
		if (!(vm_flags & VM_MAYREAD))
			return -EFAULT;
	}
	return 0;
}

/**
 * __get_user_pages() - pin user pages in memory
 * @tsk:	task_struct of target task
 * @mm:		mm_struct of target mm
 * @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. Or NULL, if caller
 *		only intends to ensure the pages are faulted in.
 * @vmas:	array of pointers to vmas corresponding to each page.
 *		Or NULL if the caller does not require them.
 * @nonblocking: whether waiting for disk IO or mmap_sem contention
 *
 * 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. Each page returned must be released
 * with a put_page() call when it is finished with. vmas will only
 * remain valid while mmap_sem is held.
 *
 * Must be called with mmap_sem held.  It may be released.  See below.
 *
 * __get_user_pages walks a process's page tables and takes a reference to
 * each struct page that each user address corresponds to at a given
 * instant. That is, it takes the page that would be accessed if a user
 * thread accesses the given user virtual address at that instant.
 *
 * This does not guarantee that the page exists in the user mappings when
 * __get_user_pages returns, and there may even be a completely different
 * page there in some cases (eg. if mmapped pagecache has been invalidated
 * and subsequently re faulted). However it does guarantee that the page
 * won't be freed completely. And mostly callers simply care that the page
 * contains data that was valid *at some point in time*. Typically, an IO
 * or similar operation cannot guarantee anything stronger anyway because
 * locks can't be held over the syscall boundary.
 *
 * If @gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE == 0, the page must not be written to. If
 * the page is written to, set_page_dirty (or set_page_dirty_lock, as
 * appropriate) must be called after the page is finished with, and
 * before put_page is called.
 *
 * If @nonblocking != NULL, __get_user_pages will not wait for disk IO
 * or mmap_sem contention, and if waiting is needed to pin all pages,
 * *@nonblocking will be set to 0.  Further, if @gup_flags does not
 * include FOLL_NOWAIT, the mmap_sem will be released via up_read() in
 * this case.
 *
 * A caller using such a combination of @nonblocking and @gup_flags
 * must therefore hold the mmap_sem for reading only, and recognize
 * when it's been released.  Otherwise, it must be held for either
 * reading or writing and will not be released.
 *
 * In most cases, get_user_pages or get_user_pages_fast should be used
 * instead of __get_user_pages. __get_user_pages should be used only if
 * you need some special @gup_flags.
 */
long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
		unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
		unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
		struct vm_area_struct **vmas, int *nonblocking)
{
	long i = 0;
	unsigned int page_mask;
	struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;

	if (!nr_pages)
		return 0;

	VM_BUG_ON(!!pages != !!(gup_flags & FOLL_GET));

	/*
	 * If FOLL_FORCE is set then do not force a full fault as the hinting
	 * fault information is unrelated to the reference behaviour of a task
	 * using the address space
	 */
	if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
		gup_flags |= FOLL_NUMA;

	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) {
			vma = find_extend_vma(mm, start);
			if (!vma && in_gate_area(mm, start)) {
				int ret;
				ret = get_gate_page(mm, start & PAGE_MASK,
						gup_flags, &vma,
						pages ? &pages[i] : NULL);
				if (ret)
					return i ? : ret;
				page_mask = 0;
				goto next_page;
			}

			if (!vma || check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
				return i ? : -EFAULT;
			if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
				i = follow_hugetlb_page(mm, vma, pages, vmas,
						&start, &nr_pages, i,
						gup_flags);
				continue;
			}
		}
retry:
		/*
		 * If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting pages and
		 * potentially allocating memory.
		 */
		if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current)))
			return i ? i : -ERESTARTSYS;
		cond_resched();
		page = follow_page_mask(vma, start, foll_flags, &page_mask);
		if (!page) {
			int ret;
			ret = faultin_page(tsk, vma, start, &foll_flags,
					nonblocking);
			switch (ret) {
			case 0:
				goto retry;
			case -EFAULT:
			case -ENOMEM:
			case -EHWPOISON:
				return i ? i : ret;
			case -EBUSY:
				return i;
			case -ENOENT:
				goto next_page;
			}
			BUG();
		}
		if (IS_ERR(page))
			return i ? i : PTR_ERR(page);
		if (pages) {
			pages[i] = page;
			flush_anon_page(vma, page, start);
			flush_dcache_page(page);
			page_mask = 0;
		}
next_page:
		if (vmas) {
			vmas[i] = vma;
			page_mask = 0;
		}
		page_increm = 1 + (~(start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & page_mask);
		if (page_increm > nr_pages)
			page_increm = nr_pages;
		i += page_increm;
		start += page_increm * PAGE_SIZE;
		nr_pages -= page_increm;
	} while (nr_pages);
	return i;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_pages);

/*
 * fixup_user_fault() - manually resolve a user page fault
 * @tsk:	the task_struct to use for page fault accounting, or
 *		NULL if faults are not to be recorded.
 * @mm:		mm_struct of target mm
 * @address:	user address
 * @fault_flags:flags to pass down to handle_mm_fault()
 *
 * This is meant to be called in the specific scenario where for locking reasons
 * we try to access user memory in atomic context (within a pagefault_disable()
 * section), this returns -EFAULT, and we want to resolve the user fault before
 * trying again.
 *
 * Typically this is meant to be used by the futex code.
 *
 * The main difference with get_user_pages() is that this function will
 * unconditionally call handle_mm_fault() which will in turn perform all the
 * necessary SW fixup of the dirty and young bits in the PTE, while
 * handle_mm_fault() only guarantees to update these in the struct page.
 *
 * This is important for some architectures where those bits also gate the
 * access permission to the page because they are maintained in software.  On
 * such architectures, gup() will not be enough to make a subsequent access
 * succeed.
 *
 * This has the same semantics wrt the @mm->mmap_sem as does filemap_fault().
 */
int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
		     unsigned long address, unsigned int fault_flags)
{
	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
	vm_flags_t vm_flags;
	int ret;

	vma = find_extend_vma(mm, address);
	if (!vma || address < vma->vm_start)
		return -EFAULT;

	vm_flags = (fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) ? VM_WRITE : VM_READ;
	if (!(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags))
		return -EFAULT;

	ret = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, fault_flags);
	if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) {
		if (ret & VM_FAULT_OOM)
			return -ENOMEM;
		if (ret & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE))
			return -EHWPOISON;
		if (ret & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV))
			return -EFAULT;
		BUG();
	}
	if (tsk) {
		if (ret & VM_FAULT_MAJOR)
			tsk->maj_flt++;
		else
			tsk->min_flt++;
	}
	return 0;
}

/*
 * get_user_pages() - pin user pages in memory
 * @tsk:	the task_struct to use for page fault accounting, or
 *		NULL if faults are not to be recorded.
 * @mm:		mm_struct of target mm
 * @start:	starting user address
 * @nr_pages:	number of pages from start to pin
 * @write:	whether pages will be written to by the caller
 * @force:	whether to force access even when user mapping is currently
 *		protected (but never forces write access to shared mapping).
 * @pages:	array that receives pointers to the pages pinned.
 *		Should be at least nr_pages long. Or NULL, if caller
 *		only intends to ensure the pages are faulted in.
 * @vmas:	array of pointers to vmas corresponding to each page.
 *		Or NULL if the caller does not require them.
 *
 * 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. Each page returned must be released
 * with a put_page() call when it is finished with. vmas will only
 * remain valid while mmap_sem is held.
 *
 * Must be called with mmap_sem held for read or write.
 *
 * get_user_pages walks a process's page tables and takes a reference to
 * each struct page that each user address corresponds to at a given
 * instant. That is, it takes the page that would be accessed if a user
 * thread accesses the given user virtual address at that instant.
 *
 * This does not guarantee that the page exists in the user mappings when
 * get_user_pages returns, and there may even be a completely different
 * page there in some cases (eg. if mmapped pagecache has been invalidated
 * and subsequently re faulted). However it does guarantee that the page
 * won't be freed completely. And mostly callers simply care that the page
 * contains data that was valid *at some point in time*. Typically, an IO
 * or similar operation cannot guarantee anything stronger anyway because
 * locks can't be held over the syscall boundary.
 *
 * If write=0, the page must not be written to. If the page is written to,
 * set_page_dirty (or set_page_dirty_lock, as appropriate) must be called
 * after the page is finished with, and before put_page is called.
 *
 * get_user_pages is typically used for fewer-copy IO operations, to get a
 * handle on the memory by some means other than accesses via the user virtual
 * addresses. The pages may be submitted for DMA to devices or accessed via
 * their kernel linear mapping (via the kmap APIs). Care should be taken to
 * use the correct cache flushing APIs.
 *
 * See also get_user_pages_fast, for performance critical applications.
 */
long get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
		unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages, int write,
		int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
{
	int flags = FOLL_TOUCH;

	if (pages)
		flags |= FOLL_GET;
	if (write)
		flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
	if (force)
		flags |= FOLL_FORCE;

	return __get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, flags, pages, vmas,
				NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);

/**
 * get_dump_page() - pin user page in memory while writing it to core dump
 * @addr: user address
 *
 * Returns struct page pointer of user page pinned for dump,
 * to be freed afterwards by page_cache_release() or put_page().
 *
 * Returns NULL on any kind of failure - a hole must then be inserted into
 * the corefile, to preserve alignment with its headers; and also returns
 * NULL wherever the ZERO_PAGE, or an anonymous pte_none, has been found -
 * allowing a hole to be left in the corefile to save diskspace.
 *
 * Called without mmap_sem, but after all other threads have been killed.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
{
	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
	struct page *page;

	if (__get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1,
			     FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET, &page, &vma,
			     NULL) < 1)
		return NULL;
	flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page));
	return page;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */

/*
 * Generic RCU Fast GUP
 *
 * get_user_pages_fast attempts to pin user pages by walking the page
 * tables directly and avoids taking locks. Thus the walker needs to be
 * protected from page table pages being freed from under it, and should
 * block any THP splits.
 *
 * One way to achieve this is to have the walker disable interrupts, and
 * rely on IPIs from the TLB flushing code blocking before the page table
 * pages are freed. This is unsuitable for architectures that do not need
 * to broadcast an IPI when invalidating TLBs.
 *
 * Another way to achieve this is to batch up page table containing pages
 * belonging to more than one mm_user, then rcu_sched a callback to free those
 * pages. Disabling interrupts will allow the fast_gup walker to both block
 * the rcu_sched callback, and an IPI that we broadcast for splitting THPs
 * (which is a relatively rare event). The code below adopts this strategy.
 *
 * Before activating this code, please be aware that the following assumptions
 * are currently made:
 *
 *  *) HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE is enabled, and tlb_remove_table is used to free
 *      pages containing page tables.
 *
 *  *) THP splits will broadcast an IPI, this can be achieved by overriding
 *      pmdp_splitting_flush.
 *
 *  *) ptes can be read atomically by the architecture.
 *
 *  *) access_ok is sufficient to validate userspace address ranges.
 *
 * The last two assumptions can be relaxed by the addition of helper functions.
 *
 * This code is based heavily on the PowerPC implementation by Nick Piggin.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP

#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
			 int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	pte_t *ptep, *ptem;
	int ret = 0;

	ptem = ptep = pte_offset_map(&pmd, addr);
	do {
		/*
		 * In the line below we are assuming that the pte can be read
		 * atomically. If this is not the case for your architecture,
		 * please wrap this in a helper function!
		 *
		 * for an example see gup_get_pte in arch/x86/mm/gup.c
		 */
		pte_t pte = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep);
		struct page *page;

		/*
		 * Similar to the PMD case below, NUMA hinting must take slow
		 * path
		 */
		if (!pte_present(pte) || pte_special(pte) ||
			pte_numa(pte) || (write && !pte_write(pte)))
			goto pte_unmap;

		VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)));
		page = pte_page(pte);

		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
			goto pte_unmap;

		if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
			put_page(page);
			goto pte_unmap;
		}

		pages[*nr] = page;
		(*nr)++;

	} while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);

	ret = 1;

pte_unmap:
	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 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, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
			 int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	return 0;
}
#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL */

static int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
		unsigned long end, int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	struct page *head, *page, *tail;
	int refs;

	if (write && !pmd_write(orig))
		return 0;

	refs = 0;
	head = pmd_page(orig);
	page = head + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
	tail = page;
	do {
		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
		pages[*nr] = page;
		(*nr)++;
		page++;
		refs++;
	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);

	if (!page_cache_add_speculative(head, refs)) {
		*nr -= refs;
		return 0;
	}

	if (unlikely(pmd_val(orig) != pmd_val(*pmdp))) {
		*nr -= refs;
		while (refs--)
			put_page(head);
		return 0;
	}

	/*
	 * Any tail pages need their mapcount reference taken before we
	 * return. (This allows the THP code to bump their ref count when
	 * they are split into base pages).
	 */
	while (refs--) {
		if (PageTail(tail))
			get_huge_page_tail(tail);
		tail++;
	}

	return 1;
}

static int gup_huge_pud(pud_t orig, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
		unsigned long end, int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	struct page *head, *page, *tail;
	int refs;

	if (write && !pud_write(orig))
		return 0;

	refs = 0;
	head = pud_page(orig);
	page = head + ((addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
	tail = page;
	do {
		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
		pages[*nr] = page;
		(*nr)++;
		page++;
		refs++;
	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);

	if (!page_cache_add_speculative(head, refs)) {
		*nr -= refs;
		return 0;
	}

	if (unlikely(pud_val(orig) != pud_val(*pudp))) {
		*nr -= refs;
		while (refs--)
			put_page(head);
		return 0;
	}

	while (refs--) {
		if (PageTail(tail))
			get_huge_page_tail(tail);
		tail++;
	}

	return 1;
}

static int gup_huge_pgd(pgd_t orig, pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr,
			unsigned long end, int write,
			struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	int refs;
	struct page *head, *page, *tail;

	if (write && !pgd_write(orig))
		return 0;

	refs = 0;
	head = pgd_page(orig);
	page = head + ((addr & ~PGDIR_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
	tail = page;
	do {
		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
		pages[*nr] = page;
		(*nr)++;
		page++;
		refs++;
	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);

	if (!page_cache_add_speculative(head, refs)) {
		*nr -= refs;
		return 0;
	}

	if (unlikely(pgd_val(orig) != pgd_val(*pgdp))) {
		*nr -= refs;
		while (refs--)
			put_page(head);
		return 0;
	}

	while (refs--) {
		if (PageTail(tail))
			get_huge_page_tail(tail);
		tail++;
	}

	return 1;
}

static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
		int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	unsigned long next;
	pmd_t *pmdp;

	pmdp = pmd_offset(&pud, addr);
	do {
		pmd_t pmd = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmdp);

		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
		if (pmd_none(pmd) || pmd_trans_splitting(pmd))
			return 0;

		if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(pmd) || pmd_huge(pmd))) {
			/*
			 * NUMA hinting faults need to be handled in the GUP
			 * slowpath for accounting purposes and so that they
			 * can be serialised against THP migration.
			 */
			if (pmd_numa(pmd))
				return 0;

			if (!gup_huge_pmd(pmd, pmdp, addr, next, write,
				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, write, pages, nr))
				return 0;
		} else if (!gup_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, write, pages, nr))
				return 0;
	} while (pmdp++, addr = next, addr != end);

	return 1;
}

static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
			 int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
{
	unsigned long next;
	pud_t *pudp;

	pudp = pud_offset(&pgd, addr);
	do {
		pud_t pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);

		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
		if (pud_none(pud))
			return 0;
		if (unlikely(pud_huge(pud))) {
			if (!gup_huge_pud(pud, pudp, addr, next, write,
					  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, write, pages, nr))
				return 0;
		} else if (!gup_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, write, pages, nr))
			return 0;
	} while (pudp++, addr = next, addr != end);

	return 1;
}

/*
 * Like get_user_pages_fast() except it's IRQ-safe in that it won't fall back to
 * the regular GUP. It will only return non-negative values.
 */
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
			  struct page **pages)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
	unsigned long addr, len, end;
	unsigned long next, flags;
	pgd_t *pgdp;
	int nr = 0;

	start &= PAGE_MASK;
	addr = start;
	len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
	end = start + len;

	if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
					start, len)))
		return 0;

	/*
	 * Disable interrupts.  We use the nested form as we can already have
	 * interrupts disabled by get_futex_key.
	 *
	 * With interrupts disabled, we block page table pages from being
	 * freed from under us. See mmu_gather_tlb in asm-generic/tlb.h
	 * for more details.
	 *
	 * We do not adopt an rcu_read_lock(.) here as we also want to
	 * block IPIs that come from THPs splitting.
	 */

	local_irq_save(flags);
	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
	do {
		pgd_t pgd = ACCESS_ONCE(*pgdp);

		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
		if (pgd_none(pgd))
			break;
		if (unlikely(pgd_huge(pgd))) {
			if (!gup_huge_pgd(pgd, pgdp, addr, next, write,
					  pages, &nr))
				break;
		} else if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd))))) {
			if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd)), addr,
					 PGDIR_SHIFT, next, write, pages, &nr))
				break;
		} else if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
			break;
	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
	local_irq_restore(flags);

	return nr;
}

/**
 * get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory
 * @start:	starting user address
 * @nr_pages:	number of pages from start to pin
 * @write:	whether pages will be written to
 * @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_sem.
 * 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, int write,
			struct page **pages)
{
	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
	int nr, ret;

	start &= PAGE_MASK;
	nr = __get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, write, pages);
	ret = nr;

	if (nr < nr_pages) {
		/* Try to get the remaining pages with get_user_pages */
		start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
		pages += nr;

		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
		ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start,
				     nr_pages - nr, write, 0, pages, NULL);
		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

		/* Have to be a bit careful with return values */
		if (nr > 0) {
			if (ret < 0)
				ret = nr;
			else
				ret += nr;
		}
	}

	return ret;
}

#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP */