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[ Upstream commit 5b65c4677a57a1d4414212f9995aa0e46a21ff80 ] The 0-day test bot found a performance regression that was tracked down to switching x86 to the generic get_user_pages_fast() implementation: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170710024020.GA26389@yexl-desktop The regression was caused by the fact that we now use local_irq_save() + local_irq_restore() in get_user_pages_fast() to disable interrupts. In x86 implementation local_irq_disable() + local_irq_enable() was used. The fix is to make get_user_pages_fast() use local_irq_disable(), leaving local_irq_save() for __get_user_pages_fast() that can be called with interrupts disabled. Numbers for pinning a gigabyte of memory, one page a time, 20 repeats: Before: Average: 14.91 ms, stddev: 0.45 ms After: Average: 10.76 ms, stddev: 0.18 ms Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Fixes: e585513b76f7 ("x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170908215603.9189-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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