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mm: change lookup_node() to use get_user_pages_fast()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:39:46 +0000 (14:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:57:01 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
commitf728b9c48d567b3f79b5fba8b993dd4f3e36bab2
tree94858b717f6c0859951f54ccd0480b6f6478cb50
parentad6c441266dcd50be080a47e1178a1b15369923c
mm: change lookup_node() to use get_user_pages_fast()

The purpose of calling get_user_pages_locked() from lookup_node() was to
allow for unlocking the mmap_lock when reading a page from the disk
during a page fault (hidden behind VM_FAULT_RETRY).  The idea was to
reduce contention on the heavily-used mmap_lock.  (Thanks to Jan Kara
for clearly pointing that out, and in fact I've used some of his wording
here.)

However, it is unlikely for lookup_node() to take a page fault.  With
that in mind, change over to calling get_user_pages_fast().  This
simplifies the code, runs a little faster in the expected case, and
allows removing get_user_pages_locked() entirely, in a subsequent patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220204020010.68930-5-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c