[patch 5/5] splice: use get_user_pages_fast

[npiggin@suse.de]

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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: shaggy@austin.ibm.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: apw@shadowen.org

---
 fs/splice.c |   41 +++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/splice.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/splice.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/splice.c
@@ -1147,36 +1147,6 @@ static long do_splice(struct file *in, l
 }
 
 /*
- * 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.
@@ -1189,8 +1159,6 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const st
 {
 	int buffers = 0, error = 0;
 
-	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
 	while (nr_vecs) {
 		unsigned long off, npages;
 		struct iovec entry;
@@ -1199,7 +1167,7 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const st
 		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;
@@ -1233,9 +1201,8 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const st
 		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;
@@ -1274,8 +1241,6 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const st
 		iov++;
 	}
 
-	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
 	if (buffers)
 		return buffers;
 

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