From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:25:03 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: restore KERNEL_DS optimisations
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1197
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=674b892ede247ef4fb8d00918f02e29c32b9bbaf;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

mm: restore KERNEL_DS optimisations

Restore the KERNEL_DS optimisation, especially helpful to the 2copy write
path.

This may be a pretty questionable gain in most cases, especially after the
legacy 2copy write path is removed, but it doesn't cost much.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ec25ba1aef5..ca04226bf1d 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ static ssize_t generic_perform_write_2copy(struct file *file,
 		 * cannot take a pagefault with the destination page locked.
 		 * So pin the source page to copy it.
 		 */
-		if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
+		if (!PageUptodate(page) && !segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)) {
 			unlock_page(page);
 
 			src_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2186,6 +2186,13 @@ static ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file,
 	const struct address_space_operations *a_ops = mapping->a_ops;
 	long status = 0;
 	ssize_t written = 0;
+	unsigned int flags = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Copies from kernel address space cannot fail (NFSD is a big user).
+	 */
+	if (segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS))
+		flags |= AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
 
 	do {
 		struct page *page;
@@ -2217,7 +2224,7 @@ again:
 			break;
 		}
 
-		status = a_ops->write_begin(file, mapping, pos, bytes, 0,
+		status = a_ops->write_begin(file, mapping, pos, bytes, flags,
 						&page, &fsdata);
 		if (unlikely(status))
 			break;