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-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/page_tables.c25
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c b/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
index d93500f24fbb..81d0c6053447 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
@@ -108,9 +108,8 @@ static unsigned long gpte_addr(pgd_t gpgd, unsigned long vaddr)
}
/*:*/
-/*M:014 get_pfn is slow; it takes the mmap sem and calls get_user_pages. We
- * could probably try to grab batches of pages here as an optimization
- * (ie. pre-faulting). :*/
+/*M:014 get_pfn is slow: we could probably try to grab batches of pages here as
+ * an optimization (ie. pre-faulting). :*/
/*H:350 This routine takes a page number given by the Guest and converts it to
* an actual, physical page number. It can fail for several reasons: the
@@ -123,19 +122,13 @@ static unsigned long gpte_addr(pgd_t gpgd, unsigned long vaddr)
static unsigned long get_pfn(unsigned long virtpfn, int write)
{
struct page *page;
- /* This value indicates failure. */
- unsigned long ret = -1UL;
- /* get_user_pages() is a complex interface: it gets the "struct
- * vm_area_struct" and "struct page" assocated with a range of pages.
- * It also needs the task's mmap_sem held, and is not very quick.
- * It returns the number of pages it got. */
- down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- if (get_user_pages(current, current->mm, virtpfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
- 1, write, 1, &page, NULL) == 1)
- ret = page_to_pfn(page);
- up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- return ret;
+ /* gup me one page at this address please! */
+ if (get_user_pages_fast(virtpfn << PAGE_SHIFT, 1, write, &page) == 1)
+ return page_to_pfn(page);
+
+ /* This value indicates failure. */
+ return -1UL;
}
/*H:340 Converting a Guest page table entry to a shadow (ie. real) page table
@@ -174,7 +167,7 @@ static pte_t gpte_to_spte(struct lg_cpu *cpu, pte_t gpte, int write)
/*H:460 And to complete the chain, release_pte() looks like this: */
static void release_pte(pte_t pte)
{
- /* Remember that get_user_pages() took a reference to the page, in
+ /* Remember that get_user_pages_fast() took a reference to the page, in
* get_pfn()? We have to put it back now. */
if (pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
put_page(pfn_to_page(pte_pfn(pte)));