The patch titled Subject: mm: simplify find_vma_prev() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-simplify-find_vma_prev.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: simplify find_vma_prev() commit 297c5eee37 ("mm: make the vma list be doubly linked") added the vm_prev member to vm_area_struct. We can simplify find_vma_prev() by using it. Also, this change helps to improve page fault performance because it has stronger locality of reference. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 40 +++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mm-simplify-find_vma_prev mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-simplify-find_vma_prev +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -1626,39 +1626,21 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct m EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_vma); -/* Same as find_vma, but also return a pointer to the previous VMA in *pprev. */ +/* + * Same as find_vma, but also return a pointer to the previous VMA in *pprev. + * Note: pprev is set to NULL when return value is NULL. + */ struct vm_area_struct * -find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, - struct vm_area_struct **pprev) +find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, struct vm_area_struct **pprev) { - struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL, *prev = NULL; - struct rb_node *rb_node; - if (!mm) - goto out; - - /* Guard against addr being lower than the first VMA */ - vma = mm->mmap; - - /* Go through the RB tree quickly. */ - rb_node = mm->mm_rb.rb_node; + struct vm_area_struct *vma; - while (rb_node) { - struct vm_area_struct *vma_tmp; - vma_tmp = rb_entry(rb_node, struct vm_area_struct, vm_rb); - - if (addr < vma_tmp->vm_end) { - rb_node = rb_node->rb_left; - } else { - prev = vma_tmp; - if (!prev->vm_next || (addr < prev->vm_next->vm_end)) - break; - rb_node = rb_node->rb_right; - } - } + *pprev = NULL; + vma = find_vma(mm, addr); + if (vma) + *pprev = vma->vm_prev; -out: - *pprev = prev; - return prev ? prev->vm_next : vma; + return vma; } /* _ Subject: Subject: mm: simplify find_vma_prev() Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch cpusets-stall-when-updating-mems_allowed-for-mempolicy-or-disjoint-nodemask.patch cpusets-stall-when-updating-mems_allowed-for-mempolicy-or-disjoint-nodemask-fix.patch cpusets-stall-when-updating-mems_allowed-for-mempolicy-or-disjoint-nodemask-fix-2.patch cpusets-stall-when-updating-mems_allowed-for-mempolicy-or-disjoint-nodemask-fix-2-fix-2.patch mm-add-free_hot_cold_page_list-helper.patch mm-add-free_hot_cold_page_list-helper-v2.patch mm-add-free_hot_cold_page_list-helper-v3.patch mm-remove-unused-pagevec_free.patch mm-tracepoint-rename-page-free-events.patch mm-tracepoint-fixup-documentation-and-examples.patch mm-hugetlbc-fix-virtual-address-handling-in-hugetlb-fault.patch mm-hugetlbc-fix-virtual-address-handling-in-hugetlb-fault-fix.patch vmscan-add-task-name-to-warn_scan_unevictable-messages.patch mm-simplify-find_vma_prev.patch mm-simplify-find_vma_prev-fix.patch mm-simplify-find_vma_prev-fix-2.patch kexec-remove-kmsg_dump_kexec.patch ipc-mqueue-simplify-reading-msgqueue-limit.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html