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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-06-15 12:31:37 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-15 15:57:51 +0200
commit465a454f254ee2ff7acc4aececbe31f8af046bc0 (patch)
tree459a4ba588c9ccd2320e20d6f9ae66538f2ebfea /arch/x86/mm/gup.c
parent75f937f24bd9c003dcb9d7d5509f23459f1f6000 (diff)
downloadlinux-465a454f254ee2ff7acc4aececbe31f8af046bc0.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/gup.c56
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
index 6340cef6798a..697d5727c119 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
@@ -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