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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 8332c77b1bd..d1060b8d3cd 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_page_range);
* @pos: beginning offset in pages to write
* @count: number of bytes to write
*
- * Note: Holding i_mutex across sync_page_range_nolock is not a good idea
+ * Note: Holding i_mutex across sync_page_range_nolock() is not a good idea
* as it forces O_SYNC writers to different parts of the same file
* to be serialised right until io completion.
*/
@@ -606,26 +606,6 @@ struct page * find_get_page(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long offset)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page);
/**
- * find_trylock_page - find and lock a page
- * @mapping: the address_space to search
- * @offset: the page index
- *
- * Same as find_get_page(), but trylock it instead of incrementing the count.
- */
-struct page *find_trylock_page(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long offset)
-{
- struct page *page;
-
- read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
- if (page && TestSetPageLocked(page))
- page = NULL;
- read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- return page;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_trylock_page);
-
-/**
* find_lock_page - locate, pin and lock a pagecache page
* @mapping: the address_space to search
* @offset: the page index
@@ -804,7 +784,7 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
* @mapping: target address_space
* @index: the page index
*
- * Same as grab_cache_page, but do not wait if the page is unavailable.
+ * Same as grab_cache_page(), but do not wait if the page is unavailable.
* This is intended for speculative data generators, where the data can
* be regenerated if the page couldn't be grabbed. This routine should
* be safe to call while holding the lock for another page.
@@ -2099,21 +2079,27 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
/* Limit the size of the copy to the caller's write size */
bytes = min(bytes, count);
- /*
- * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current segment,
- * because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't know how to walk
- * segments.
- */
- bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
-
- /*
- * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
- * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
- * same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
- * up-to-date.
+ /* We only need to worry about prefaulting when writes are from
+ * user-space. NFSd uses vfs_writev with several non-aligned
+ * segments in the vector, and limiting to one segment a time is
+ * a noticeable performance for re-write
*/
- fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ if (!segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)) {
+ /*
+ * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current
+ * segment, because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't
+ * know how to walk segments.
+ */
+ bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
+ /*
+ * Bring in the user page that we will copy from
+ * _first_. Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on
+ * copying from the same page as we're writing to,
+ * without it being marked up-to-date.
+ */
+ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ }
page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
if (!page) {
status = -ENOMEM;