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From:   Chen Wandun <chenwandun@huawei.com>
To:     <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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CC:     <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>, <chenwandun@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: avoid unnecessary page table walk for __get_user_pages
Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2022 10:44:01 +0800
Message-ID: <20220906024401.133336-1-chenwandun@huawei.com>
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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@huawei.com>
---
 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