Patch series "mm/get_user_pages_fast fixes, cleanups", v2.
Turns out get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast return different
values on error when given a single page: __get_user_pages_fast returns
0. get_user_pages_fast returns either 0 or an error.
Callers of get_user_pages_fast expect an error so fix it up to return an
error consistently.
Stress the difference between get_user_pages_fast and
__get_user_pages_fast to make sure callers aren't confused.
This patch (of 3):
__gup_benchmark_ioctl does not handle the case where get_user_pages_fast
fails:
- a negative return code will cause a buffer overrun
- returning with partial success will cause use of uninitialized
memory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplification]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-3-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Performance of get_user_pages_fast() is critical for some workloads, but
it's tricky to test it directly.
This patch provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with
testing performance of it.
See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c for userspace
counterpart.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170908215603.9189-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael S. Tsirkin
Kirill A. Shutemov