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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2008-02-06 01:37:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:09 -0800
commit1bf47346d75790ebd2563d909d48046961c7ffd5 (patch)
tree0f478764beb8dc4e0c71c5f3d6a657535579fe3a /kernel/sys.c
parent6b2fb3c65844452bb9e8b449d50863d1b36c5dc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-1bf47346d75790ebd2563d909d48046961c7ffd5.tar.bz2
kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort()
groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table. This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide. So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very high latencies. (NGROUPS_MAX=65536) In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search() (commit d74beb9f33a5f16d2965f11b275e401f225c949d ) and at that time I changed some variables to unsigned int. I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is unsigned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 2b8e2daa9d95..e3c08d4324de 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1145,16 +1145,16 @@ static int groups_to_user(gid_t __user *grouplist,
struct group_info *group_info)
{
int i;
- int count = group_info->ngroups;
+ unsigned int count = group_info->ngroups;
for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++) {
- int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count);
- int off = i * NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK;
- int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist);
+ unsigned int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count);
+ unsigned int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist);
- if (copy_to_user(grouplist+off, group_info->blocks[i], len))
+ if (copy_to_user(grouplist, group_info->blocks[i], len))
return -EFAULT;
+ grouplist += NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK;
count -= cp_count;
}
return 0;
@@ -1165,16 +1165,16 @@ static int groups_from_user(struct group_info *group_info,
gid_t __user *grouplist)
{
int i;
- int count = group_info->ngroups;
+ unsigned int count = group_info->ngroups;
for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++) {
- int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count);
- int off = i * NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK;
- int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist);
+ unsigned int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count);
+ unsigned int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist);
- if (copy_from_user(group_info->blocks[i], grouplist+off, len))
+ if (copy_from_user(group_info->blocks[i], grouplist, len))
return -EFAULT;
+ grouplist += NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK;
count -= cp_count;
}
return 0;