[PATCH v5 07/24] IB/umem: use get_user_pages_fast() to pin DMA pages

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Fri Nov 15 16:53:23 AEDT 2019


And get rid of the mmap_sem calls, as part of that. Note
that get_user_pages_fast() will, if necessary, fall back to
__gup_longterm_unlocked(), which takes the mmap_sem as needed.

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 17 ++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
index 24244a2f68cc..3d664a2539eb 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
@@ -271,16 +271,13 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_udata *udata, unsigned long addr,
 	sg = umem->sg_head.sgl;
 
 	while (npages) {
-		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		ret = get_user_pages(cur_base,
-				     min_t(unsigned long, npages,
-					   PAGE_SIZE / sizeof (struct page *)),
-				     gup_flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
-				     page_list, NULL);
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		ret = get_user_pages_fast(cur_base,
+					  min_t(unsigned long, npages,
+						PAGE_SIZE /
+						sizeof(struct page *)),
+					  gup_flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, page_list);
+		if (ret < 0)
 			goto umem_release;
-		}
 
 		cur_base += ret * PAGE_SIZE;
 		npages   -= ret;
@@ -288,8 +285,6 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_udata *udata, unsigned long addr,
 		sg = ib_umem_add_sg_table(sg, page_list, ret,
 			dma_get_max_seg_size(context->device->dma_device),
 			&umem->sg_nents);
-
-		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	}
 
 	sg_mark_end(sg);
-- 
2.24.0



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