linux-kernel - [PATCH] mremap: skip page table lookup for non-faulted anonymous VMAs

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Message-Id: <201111071221.35403.nai.xia@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:21:35 +0800
From:	Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Pawel Sikora <pluto@...k.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	jpiszcz@...idpixels.com, arekm@...-linux.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mremap: skip page table lookup for non-faulted anonymous VMAs

If an anonymous vma has not yet been faulted, move_page_tables() in move_vma()
is not necessary for it.

Signed-off-by: Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>
---
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (!new_vma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	/* An anonymous vma has not been faulted, no pagetables lookup. */
+	if (!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma)
+		goto page_tables_ok;
+
 	moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len);
 	if (moved_len < old_len) {
 		/*
@@ -213,6 +217,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		old_addr = new_addr;
 		new_addr = -ENOMEM;
 	}
+page_tables_ok:
 
 	/* Conceal VM_ACCOUNT so old reservation is not undone */
 	if (vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {

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