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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2015-02-11 15:27:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:05 -0800
commita7b780750e1a1c7833812681e1f8fa30bbb06802 (patch)
treee13f7ac217df9904b5cbc1cb624c9f7c9e2130ac /arch/x86
parent0fd71a56f41d4ffabeda1dae9ff5ed4f34d4e935 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7b780750e1a1c7833812681e1f8fa30bbb06802.tar.bz2
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 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/gup.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
index 224b14235e96..89df70e0caa6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
@@ -388,10 +388,9 @@ slow_irqon:
start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
pages += nr;
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start,
- (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT, write, 0, pages, NULL);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ ret = get_user_pages_unlocked(current, mm, start,
+ (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+ write, 0, pages);
/* Have to be a bit careful with return values */
if (nr > 0) {