On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:55:11AM -0500, Brian Boylston wrote:
> copy_from_iter_nocache() is only "nocache" for iovecs. Enhance it to also
> use a nocache copy for bvecs. This improves performance by 2-3X when
> splice()ing to a file in a DAX-mounted, pmem-backed file system.
> +static void memcpy_from_page_nocache(char *to, struct page *page, size_t
> offset, size_t len)
> +{
> + char *from = kmap_atomic(page);
> + __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(to, from, len);
> + kunmap_atomic(from);
> +}
At the very least, it will blow up on any architecture with split
userland and kernel MMU contexts. You *can't* feed a kernel pointer
to things like that and expect it to work. At the very least, you
need to add memcpy_nocache() and have it default to memcpy(), with
non-dummy version on x86. And use _that_, rather than messing with
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()
