From 734b05b10e51d4ba38c8fc3ee02e846aab09eedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:32:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] futex: use fast_gup()

Change the get_user_pages() call with fast_gup() which doesn't require holding
the mmap_sem thereby removing the mmap_sem from all fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 6a726684217e..facf17d1a705 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -232,9 +232,7 @@ static int get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
 	}
 
 again:
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	err = get_user_pages(current, mm, address, 1, 0, 0, &page, NULL);
-	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	err = get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 0, &page);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
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