mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly

try_get_page() is very similar to try_get_compound_head(), and in fact
try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance:
try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more
thoroughly.

There are only two try_get_page() callsites, so just call
try_get_compound_head() directly from those, and remove try_get_page()
entirely.

Also, seeing as how this changes try_get_compound_head() into a non-static
function, provide some kerneldoc documentation for it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index d60419ed9262..1c7f4ec6990b 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -62,11 +62,24 @@ static void put_page_refs(struct page *page, int refs)
 	put_page(page);
 }
 
-/*
- * Return the compound head page with ref appropriately incremented,
- * or NULL if that failed.
+/**
+ * try_get_compound_head() - return the compound head page with refcount
+ * appropriately incremented, or NULL if that failed.
+ *
+ * This handles potential refcount overflow correctly. It also works correctly
+ * for various lockless get_user_pages()-related callers, due to the use of
+ * page_cache_add_speculative().
+ *
+ * Even though the name includes "compound_head", this function is still
+ * appropriate for callers that have a non-compound @page to get.
+ *
+ * @page:  pointer to page to be gotten
+ * @refs:  the value to add to the page's refcount
+ *
+ * Return: head page (with refcount appropriately incremented) for success, or
+ * NULL upon failure.
  */
-static inline struct page *try_get_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs)
+struct page *try_get_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs)
 {
 	struct page *head = compound_head(page);