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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2015-02-12 00:27:23 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 02:06:05 +0100
commita7b780750e1a1c7833812681e1f8fa30bbb06802 (patch)
treee13f7ac217df9904b5cbc1cb624c9f7c9e2130ac /mm/util.c
parentmm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize gup_flags (diff)
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mm: gup: use get_user_pages_unlocked within get_user_pages_fast
This allows the get_user_pages_fast slow path to release the mmap_sem before blocking. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c10
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index fec39d4509a9..f3ef639c4857 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -240,14 +240,8 @@ int __weak get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
- int ret;
-
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start, nr_pages,
- write, 0, pages, NULL);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-
- return ret;
+ return get_user_pages_unlocked(current, mm, start, nr_pages,
+ write, 0, pages);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast);