When addr is out of the range of the whole rb_tree, pprev will points to the biggest node. find_vma_prev gets is by going through the right most node of the tree. Since only the last node is the one it is looking for, it is not necessary to assign pprev to those middle stage nodes. By assigning pprev to the last node directly, it tries to improve the function locality a little. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 7e8c3e8ae75f..284bc7e51f9c 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2271,11 +2271,10 @@ find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, *pprev = vma->vm_prev; } else { struct rb_node *rb_node = mm->mm_rb.rb_node; - *pprev = NULL; - while (rb_node) { - *pprev = rb_entry(rb_node, struct vm_area_struct, vm_rb); + while (rb_node && rb_node->rb_right) rb_node = rb_node->rb_right; - } + *pprev = rb_node ? NULL + : rb_entry(rb_node, struct vm_area_struct, vm_rb); } return vma; } -- 2.17.1