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| author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +0100 |
| commit | d15f107d97bd74c74d8f5144843d372666ddbdac (patch) | |
| tree | 6c12d3c738c3118ccab724b5b984fc07c7e58082 /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 1bfe5febe34d2be2120803c10720e179186357c9 (diff) | |
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HWPOISON: Use get_user_page_fast in hwpoison madvise
The previous version didn't take the mmap_sem before calling gup(),
which is racy.
Use get_user_pages_fast() instead which doesn't need any locks.
This is also faster of course, but then it doesn't really matter
because this is just a testing path.
Based on report from Nick Piggin.
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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