f728b9c48d
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>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.