[PATCH] mm: avoid unnecessary page table walk for __get_user_pages

From: Chen Wandun
Date: Mon Sep 05 2022 - 22:44:54 EST


It is no need to walk page table and find pages if faultin_page success
and __get_user_pages does't care pages at all, so directly handle next
page.

Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 983e24fd4b70..c8de33cc37af 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,10 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
PTR_ERR(page) == -EMLINK, locked);
switch (ret) {
case 0:
- goto retry;
+ if (pages)
+ goto retry;
+ else
+ goto next_page;
case -EBUSY:
case -EAGAIN:
ret = 0;
--
2.25.1