From 734b05b10e51d4ba38c8fc3ee02e846aab09eedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:32:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] futex: use fast_gup() Change the get_user_pages() call with fast_gup() which doesn't require holding the mmap_sem thereby removing the mmap_sem from all fast paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/futex.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 6a726684217..facf17d1a70 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -232,9 +232,7 @@ static int get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared, } again: - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - err = get_user_pages(current, mm, address, 1, 0, 0, &page, NULL); - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + err = get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 0, &page); if (err < 0) return err;