commit bc40d73c950146725e9e768e856a416ec8949065
author Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Fri Jul 25 19:45:26 2008 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Sat Jul 26 12:00:06 2008 -0700
tree 7d12351ddeb6a281ff7a9b5db543067c710d1859
parent f5dd33c494a427b1d1a3b574de5c9e511c888864

splice: use get_user_pages_fast

Use get_user_pages_fast in splice.  This reverts some mmap_sem batching
there, however the biggest problem with mmap_sem tends to be hold times
blocking out other threads rather than cacheline bouncing.  Further: on
architectures that implement get_user_pages_fast without locks, mmap_sem
can be avoided completely anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/splice.c

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 3994421..47dc1a4 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1161,36 +1161,6 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * Do a copy-from-user while holding the mmap_semaphore for reading, in a
- * manner safe from deadlocking with simultaneous mmap() (grabbing mmap_sem
- * for writing) and page faulting on the user memory pointed to by src.
- * This assumes that we will very rarely hit the partial != 0 path, or this
- * will not be a win.
- */
-static int copy_from_user_mmap_sem(void *dst, const void __user *src, size_t n)
-{
-	int partial;
-
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, src, n))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	pagefault_disable();
-	partial = __copy_from_user_inatomic(dst, src, n);
-	pagefault_enable();
-
-	/*
-	 * Didn't copy everything, drop the mmap_sem and do a faulting copy
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(partial)) {
-		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-		partial = copy_from_user(dst, src, n);
-		down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-	}
-
-	return partial;
-}
-
-/*
  * Map an iov into an array of pages and offset/length tupples. With the
  * partial_page structure, we can map several non-contiguous ranges into
  * our ones pages[] map instead of splitting that operation into pieces.
@@ -1203,8 +1173,6 @@
 {
 	int buffers = 0, error = 0;
 
-	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
 	while (nr_vecs) {
 		unsigned long off, npages;
 		struct iovec entry;
@@ -1213,7 +1181,7 @@
 		int i;
 
 		error = -EFAULT;
-		if (copy_from_user_mmap_sem(&entry, iov, sizeof(entry)))
+		if (copy_from_user(&entry, iov, sizeof(entry)))
 			break;
 
 		base = entry.iov_base;
@@ -1247,9 +1215,8 @@
 		if (npages > PIPE_BUFFERS - buffers)
 			npages = PIPE_BUFFERS - buffers;
 
-		error = get_user_pages(current, current->mm,
-				       (unsigned long) base, npages, 0, 0,
-				       &pages[buffers], NULL);
+		error = get_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)base, npages,
+					0, &pages[buffers]);
 
 		if (unlikely(error <= 0))
 			break;
@@ -1288,8 +1255,6 @@
 		iov++;
 	}
 
-	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
 	if (buffers)
 		return buffers;