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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
commita1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch)
tree0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /arch/x86/mm/gup.c
parent75e33751ca8bbb72dd6f1a74d2810ddc8cbe4bdf (diff)
parentd28daf923ac5e4a0d7cecebae56f3e339189366b (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts: arch/Kconfig kernel/trace/trace.h Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new ring-buffer APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/gup.c67
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
index 6340cef6798..71da1bca13c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
static inline pte_t gup_get_pte(pte_t *ptep)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PAE
- return *ptep;
+ return ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep);
#else
/*
* With get_user_pages_fast, we walk down the pagetables without taking
@@ -219,6 +219,62 @@ static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
return 1;
}
+/*
+ * Like get_user_pages_fast() except its IRQ-safe in that it won't fall
+ * back to the regular GUP.
+ */
+int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
+ struct page **pages)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ unsigned long addr, len, end;
+ unsigned long next;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ pgd_t *pgdp;
+ int nr = 0;
+
+ start &= PAGE_MASK;
+ addr = start;
+ len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ end = start + len;
+ if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
+ (void __user *)start, len)))
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: batch / limit 'nr', to avoid large irq off latency
+ * needs some instrumenting to determine the common sizes used by
+ * important workloads (eg. DB2), and whether limiting the batch size
+ * will decrease performance.
+ *
+ * It seems like we're in the clear for the moment. Direct-IO is
+ * the main guy that batches up lots of get_user_pages, and even
+ * they are limited to 64-at-a-time which is not so many.
+ */
+ /*
+ * This doesn't prevent pagetable teardown, but does prevent
+ * the pagetables and pages from being freed on x86.
+ *
+ * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown
+ * (which we do on x86, with the above PAE exception), we can follow the
+ * address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
+ */
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
+ do {
+ pgd_t pgd = *pgdp;
+
+ next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
+ if (pgd_none(pgd))
+ break;
+ if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
+ break;
+ } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+ return nr;
+}
+
/**
* get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory
* @start: starting user address
@@ -247,11 +303,16 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
start &= PAGE_MASK;
addr = start;
len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
end = start + len;
- if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
- (void __user *)start, len)))
+ if (end < start)
goto slow_irqon;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if (end >> __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT)
+ goto slow_irqon;
+#endif
+
/*
* XXX: batch / limit 'nr', to avoid large irq off latency
* needs some instrumenting to determine the common sizes used by