x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast()

Introduce a gup_fast() variant which is usable from IRQ/NMI context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-15 12:31:37 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 75f937f24b
commit 465a454f25
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@@ -862,6 +862,12 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages);
/*
* doesn't attempt to fault and will return short.
*/
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages);
/*
* A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
*