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x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() 

Introduce a gup_fast() variant which is usable from IRQ/NMI context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra 2009-06-15 12:31:37 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 75f937f24b
commit 465a454f25
2 changed files with 62 additions and 0 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/gup.c
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@ -219,6 +219,62 @@ static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
return 1;
}
/*
* Like get_user_pages_fast() except its IRQ-safe in that it won't fall
* back to the regular GUP.
*/
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
unsigned long addr, len, end;
unsigned long next;
unsigned long flags;
pgd_t *pgdp;
int nr = 0;
start &= PAGE_MASK;
addr = start;
len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
end = start + len;
if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
(void __user *)start, len)))
return 0;
/*
* XXX: batch / limit 'nr', to avoid large irq off latency
* needs some instrumenting to determine the common sizes used by
* important workloads (eg. DB2), and whether limiting the batch size
* will decrease performance.
*
* It seems like we're in the clear for the moment. Direct-IO is
* the main guy that batches up lots of get_user_pages, and even
* they are limited to 64-at-a-time which is not so many.
*/
/*
* This doesn't prevent pagetable teardown, but does prevent
* the pagetables and pages from being freed on x86.
*
* So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown
* (which we do on x86, with the above PAE exception), we can follow the
* address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
*/
local_irq_save(flags);
pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
do {
pgd_t pgd = *pgdp;
next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pgd_none(pgd))
break;
if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
break;
} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
local_irq_restore(flags);
return nr;
}
/**
* get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory
* @start: starting user address

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include/linux/mm.h
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@ -862,6 +862,12 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages);
/*
* doesn't attempt to fault and will return short.
*/
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages);
/*
* A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
*