From a7b780750e1a1c7833812681e1f8fa30bbb06802 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:27:23 -0800 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Peter Feiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/gup.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/gup.c') diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index dad5875fb766..c2da1163986a 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1243,10 +1243,8 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write, start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT; pages += nr; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start, - nr_pages - nr, write, 0, pages, NULL); - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + ret = get_user_pages_unlocked(current, mm, start, + nr_pages - nr, write, 0, pages); /* Have to be a bit careful with return values */ if (nr > 0) { -- cgit v1.2.3