Holding mmap_sem exclusively for a gup() is an overkill. Lets replace the call for gup_fast() and let the mm take it if necessary.
Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Cc: Bjorn Topel <bjorn.to...@intel.com> Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karls...@intel.com> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbu...@suse.de> --- net/xdp/xdp_umem.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c b/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c index 5ab236c5c9a5..25e1e76654a8 100644 --- a/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c +++ b/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c @@ -265,10 +265,8 @@ static int xdp_umem_pin_pages(struct xdp_umem *umem) if (!umem->pgs) return -ENOMEM; - down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); - npgs = get_user_pages(umem->address, umem->npgs, - gup_flags, &umem->pgs[0], NULL); - up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + npgs = get_user_pages_fast(umem->address, umem->npgs, + gup_flags, &umem->pgs[0]); if (npgs != umem->npgs) { if (npgs >= 0) { -- 2.16.4