[PATCH] vhost: copy_from_user -> __copy_from_user
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2011-03-06 11:34:35
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kvm, lkml
Subsystem:
the rest, virtio host (vhost) · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang, Eugenio Pérez
copy_from_user is pretty high on perf top profile, replacing it with __copy_from_user helps. It's also safe because we do access_ok checks during setup. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index ade0568..01701b8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ int vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, i, vq->num, head); return -EINVAL; } - ret = copy_from_user(&desc, vq->desc + i, sizeof desc); + ret = __copy_from_user(&desc, vq->desc + i, sizeof desc); if (unlikely(ret)) { vq_err(vq, "Failed to get descriptor: idx %d addr %p\n", i, vq->desc + i);
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1.7.3.2.91.g446ac