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-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c32
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 00414849a86..d1060b8d3cd 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2079,21 +2079,27 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
/* Limit the size of the copy to the caller's write size */
bytes = min(bytes, count);
- /*
- * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current segment,
- * because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't know how to walk
- * segments.
+ /* We only need to worry about prefaulting when writes are from
+ * user-space. NFSd uses vfs_writev with several non-aligned
+ * segments in the vector, and limiting to one segment a time is
+ * a noticeable performance for re-write
*/
- bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
-
- /*
- * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
- * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
- * same page as we're writing to, without it being marked
- * up-to-date.
- */
- fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ if (!segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)) {
+ /*
+ * Limit the size of the copy to that of the current
+ * segment, because fault_in_pages_readable() doesn't
+ * know how to walk segments.
+ */
+ bytes = min(bytes, cur_iov->iov_len - iov_base);
+ /*
+ * Bring in the user page that we will copy from
+ * _first_. Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on
+ * copying from the same page as we're writing to,
+ * without it being marked up-to-date.
+ */
+ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
+ }
page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
if (!page) {
status = -ENOMEM;