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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-09-26 19:32:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-30 12:35:46 +0200
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futex: use fast_gup()
Change the get_user_pages() call with fast_gup() which doesn't require holding the mmap_sem thereby removing the mmap_sem from all fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 6a72668..facf17d 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -232,9 +232,7 @@ static int get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
}
again:
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- err = get_user_pages(current, mm, address, 1, 0, 0, &page, NULL);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ err = get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 0, &page);
if (err < 0)
return err;