kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort() groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table. This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide. So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very high latencies. (NGROUPS_MAX=65536) In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search() (commit d74beb9f33a5f16d2965f11b275e401f225c949d ) and at that time I changed some variables to unsigned int. I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is unsigned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 2b8e2da..e3c08d4 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1145,16 +1145,16 @@ struct group_info *group_info) { int i; - int count = group_info->ngroups; + unsigned int count = group_info->ngroups; for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++) { - int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count); - int off = i * NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; - int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist); + unsigned int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count); + unsigned int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist); - if (copy_to_user(grouplist+off, group_info->blocks[i], len)) + if (copy_to_user(grouplist, group_info->blocks[i], len)) return -EFAULT; + grouplist += NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; count -= cp_count; } return 0; @@ -1165,16 +1165,16 @@ gid_t __user *grouplist) { int i; - int count = group_info->ngroups; + unsigned int count = group_info->ngroups; for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++) { - int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count); - int off = i * NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; - int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist); + unsigned int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count); + unsigned int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist); - if (copy_from_user(group_info->blocks[i], grouplist+off, len)) + if (copy_from_user(group_info->blocks[i], grouplist, len)) return -EFAULT; + grouplist += NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; count -= cp_count; } return 0;