Holding mmap_sem exclusively for a gup() is an overkill. Lets share the lock and replace the gup call for gup_longterm(), as it is better suited for the lifetime of the pinning.
Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Cc: Bjorn Topel <bjorn.to...@intel.com> Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karls...@intel.com> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbu...@suse.de> --- net/xdp/xdp_umem.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c b/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c index 5ab236c5c9a5..e7fa8d0d7090 100644 --- a/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c +++ b/net/xdp/xdp_umem.c @@ -265,10 +265,10 @@ static int xdp_umem_pin_pages(struct xdp_umem *umem) if (!umem->pgs) return -ENOMEM; - down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); - npgs = get_user_pages(umem->address, umem->npgs, + down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + npgs = get_user_pages_longterm(umem->address, umem->npgs, gup_flags, &umem->pgs[0], NULL); - up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); if (npgs != umem->npgs) { if (npgs >= 0) { -- 2.16.4