Commit 0ffe9849 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Tony Luck

[IA64] Prefetch mmap_sem in ia64_do_page_fault()

Take a hint from an x86_64 optimization by Arjan van de Ven and use it
for ia64.  See a9ba9a3b

Prefetch the mmap_sem, which is critical for the performance of the page fault
handler.

Note: mm may be NULL but I guess that is safe.
See 458f9355Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent 8cab7ccc
......@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long address, unsigned long isr, struct pt_regs *re
struct siginfo si;
unsigned long mask;
/* mmap_sem is performance critical.... */
prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
* If we're in an interrupt or have no user context, we must not take the fault..
*/
......
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