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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/hmm.h | 24 |
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diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h index e5834082de60..a79fcc6681f5 100644 --- a/include/linux/hmm.h +++ b/include/linux/hmm.h @@ -438,6 +438,30 @@ struct hmm_mirror { int hmm_mirror_register(struct hmm_mirror *mirror, struct mm_struct *mm); void hmm_mirror_unregister(struct hmm_mirror *mirror); +/* + * hmm_mirror_mm_is_alive() - test if mm is still alive + * @mirror: the HMM mm mirror for which we want to lock the mmap_sem + * Returns: false if the mm is dead, true otherwise + * + * This is an optimization it will not accurately always return -EINVAL if the + * mm is dead ie there can be false negative (process is being kill but HMM is + * not yet inform of that). It is only intented to be use to optimize out case + * where driver is about to do something time consuming and it would be better + * to skip it if the mm is dead. + */ +static inline bool hmm_mirror_mm_is_alive(struct hmm_mirror *mirror) +{ + struct mm_struct *mm; + + if (!mirror || !mirror->hmm) + return false; + mm = READ_ONCE(mirror->hmm->mm); + if (mirror->hmm->dead || !mm) + return false; + + return true; +} + /* * Please see Documentation/vm/hmm.rst for how to use the range API. |