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> --- arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c index fab095362c50..4b90339aef50 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c @@ -106,11 +106,12 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *file, { struct hstate *h = hstate_file(file); struct vm_unmapped_area_info info; + unsigned long mmap_base = get_mmap_base(0); info.flags = VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN; info.length = len; info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE; - info.high_limit = get_mmap_base(0); + info.high_limit = mmap_base; /* * If hint address is above DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW, look for unmapped area @@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *file, if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK) { VM_BUG_ON(addr != -ENOMEM); info.flags = 0; - info.low_limit = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE; + info.low_limit = mmap_base; info.high_limit = TASK_SIZE_LOW; addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info); } -- 2.20.1