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Thomas Hellstrom committed c9e5f41f732
mm: Allow the [page|pfn]_mkwrite callbacks to drop the mmap_sem Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when expecting long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users. Allow the mkwrite callbacks to do the same by returning early on VM_FAULT_RETRY. In particular we want to be able to drop the mmap_sem when waiting for a reservation object lock on a GPU buffer object. These locks may be held while waiting for the GPU. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>