In case of mmap failure in top-down mode, there is no need to go through the whole address space again for the bottom-up fallback: the goal of this fallback is to find, as a last resort, space between the top-down mmap base and the stack, which is the only place not covered by the top-down mmap. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index dedae10cb6e2..e563145c1ff4 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr, if (offset_in_page(addr)) { VM_BUG_ON(addr != -ENOMEM); info.flags = 0; - info.low_limit = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE; + info.low_limit = arch_get_mmap_base(addr, mm->mmap_base); info.high_limit = mmap_end; addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info); } -- 2.20.1