Re: [PATCH 1/2] Export get_user_pages_fast

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 04:23:01 EST


On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:10:57 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 31 July 2008 17:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:43:59 +0300 Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Surprised. Why not an out-of-line function? Would eliminate the
> > > present discussion as well.
> >
> > Excellent question!
>
> Like this?
>

Boy, that cleaned out a lot of crud, didn't it?

> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h 2008-07-31 17:59:04.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h 2008-07-31 18:01:51.000000000 +1000
> @@ -834,7 +834,6 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area
> struct vm_area_struct **pprev, unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end, unsigned long newflags);
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST
> /*
> * get_user_pages_fast provides equivalent functionality to get_user_pages,
> * operating on current and current->mm (force=0 and doesn't return any vmas).
> @@ -848,25 +847,6 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area
> int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> struct page **pages);
>
> -#else
> -/*
> - * Should probably be moved to asm-generic, and architectures can include it if
> - * they don't implement their own get_user_pages_fast.
> - */
> -#define get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, write, pages) \
> -({ \
> - struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; \
> - int ret; \
> - \
> - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); \
> - ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start, nr_pages, \
> - write, 0, pages, NULL); \
> - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); \
> - \
> - ret; \
> -})
> -#endif
> -
> /*
> * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
> *
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c 2008-07-31 17:59:26.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c 2008-07-31 18:01:25.000000000 +1000
> @@ -1270,6 +1270,21 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
>
> +int __attribute__((weak)) get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
> + int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages)
> +{
> + struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> + int ret;
> +
> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start, nr_pages,
> + write, 0, pages, NULL);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast);

hm, OK, I guess there's no reason why gcc should muck up the export of
a weak symbol.


> pte_t *get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> spinlock_t **ptl)
> {
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-07-31 18:08:35.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-07-31 18:08:53.000000000 +1000
> @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ config X86
> select HAVE_IDE
> select HAVE_OPROFILE
> select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
> - select HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST
> select HAVE_KPROBES
> select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
> select HAVE_KRETPROBES
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/Makefile 2008-07-31 18:08:58.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/Makefile 2008-07-31 18:09:07.000000000 +1000
> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
> obj-y := init_$(BITS).o fault.o ioremap.o extable.o pageattr.o mmap.o \
> - pat.o pgtable.o
> + pat.o pgtable.o gup.o
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST) += gup.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += pgtable_32.o
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) += hugetlbpage.o

If we do this then corresponding changes should be made to the powerpc
patch upon which Ben presently sits.

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