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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-10-16 01:24:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:54 -0700
commit4a9e5ef1f4f15205e477817a5cefc34bd3f65f55 (patch)
tree51f52086ecbccc3f41955d8d12293ef7a566a05b /mm/filemap_xip.c
parenteb2be189317d031895b5ca534fbf735eb546158b (diff)
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mm: write iovec cleanup
Hide some of the open-coded nr_segs tests into the iovec helpers. This is all to simplify generic_file_buffered_write, because that gets more complex in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap_xip.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap_xip.c17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap_xip.c b/mm/filemap_xip.c
index 53ee6a299635..32132f3cd641 100644
--- a/mm/filemap_xip.c
+++ b/mm/filemap_xip.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
-#include "filemap.h"
/*
* We do use our own empty page to avoid interference with other users
@@ -288,6 +287,7 @@ __xip_file_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
unsigned long index;
unsigned long offset;
size_t copied;
+ char *kaddr;
offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */
index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
@@ -295,14 +295,6 @@ __xip_file_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
if (bytes > count)
bytes = count;
- /*
- * 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 = a_ops->get_xip_page(mapping,
index*(PAGE_SIZE/512), 0);
if (IS_ERR(page) && (PTR_ERR(page) == -ENODATA)) {
@@ -319,8 +311,13 @@ __xip_file_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
break;
}
- copied = filemap_copy_from_user(page, offset, buf, bytes);
+ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
+ copied = bytes -
+ __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(kaddr, buf, bytes);
+ kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
flush_dcache_page(page);
+
if (likely(copied > 0)) {
status = copied;