mm, x86/mm: Fix performance regression in get_user_pages_fast()

The 0-day test bot found a performance regression that was tracked down to
switching x86 to the generic get_user_pages_fast() implementation:

  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170710024020.GA26389@yexl-desktop

The regression was caused by the fact that we now use local_irq_save() +
local_irq_restore() in get_user_pages_fast() to disable interrupts.
In x86 implementation local_irq_disable() + local_irq_enable() was used.

The fix is to make get_user_pages_fast() use local_irq_disable(),
leaving local_irq_save() for __get_user_pages_fast() that can be called
with interrupts disabled.

Numbers for pinning a gigabyte of memory, one page a time, 20 repeats:

  Before:  Average: 14.91 ms, stddev: 0.45 ms
  After:   Average: 10.76 ms, stddev: 0.18 ms

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Fixes: e585513b76f7 ("x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170908215603.9189-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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