mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page

GUP user may want to try to acquire a reference to a page if it is already
in memory, but not if IO, to bring it in, is needed.  For example KVM may
tell vcpu to schedule another guest process if current one is trying to
access swapped out page.  Meanwhile, the page will be swapped in and the
guest process, that depends on it, will be able to run again.

This patch adds FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT (suggested by Linus) and
FOLL_NOWAIT follow_page flags.  FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT, when used in
conjunction with VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY, indicates to handle_mm_fault that
it shouldn't drop mmap_sem and wait on a page, but return VM_FAULT_RETRY
instead.

[[email protected]: improve FOLL_NOWAIT comment]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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