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Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:01:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] hugetlb: drop prev_vma in
 hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:44:53 +0800
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Afte call find_vma_prev(mm, addr, &prev_vma), following condition is always
> true:
> 	!prev_vma || (addr >= prev_vma->vm_end)
> it can be happily drop prev_vma and use find_vma instead of find_vma_prev

I had to rework this patch due to 097d59106a8e4b ("vm: avoid using
find_vma_prev() unnecessarily") in mainline.  Can you please check my
handiwork?



From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: hugetlb: drop prev_vma in hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown()

After the call find_vma_prev(mm, addr, &prev_vma), the following condition
is always true:

	!prev_vma || (addr >= prev_vma->vm_end)

it can happily drop prev_vma and use find_vma() instead of find_vma_prev().

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c |   23 +++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~hugetlb-drop-prev_vma-in-hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~hugetlb-drop-prev_vma-in-hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown
+++ a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_get_unmappe
 {
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_file(file);
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev_vma;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	unsigned long base = mm->mmap_base, addr = addr0;
 	unsigned long largest_hole = mm->cached_hole_size;
 	int first_time = 1;
@@ -334,25 +334,16 @@ try_again:
 		 * i.e. return with success:
 		 */
 		vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
-		if (!vma)
-			return addr;
-
-		/*
-		 * new region fits between prev_vma->vm_end and
-		 * vma->vm_start, use it:
-		 */
-		prev_vma = vma->vm_prev;
-		if (addr + len <= vma->vm_start &&
-		            (!prev_vma || (addr >= prev_vma->vm_end))) {
+		if (vma)
+			prev_vma = vma->vm_prev;
+		if (!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start) {
 			/* remember the address as a hint for next time */
 		        mm->cached_hole_size = largest_hole;
 		        return (mm->free_area_cache = addr);
-		} else {
+		} else if (mm->free_area_cache == vma->vm_end) {
 			/* pull free_area_cache down to the first hole */
-		        if (mm->free_area_cache == vma->vm_end) {
-				mm->free_area_cache = vma->vm_start;
-				mm->cached_hole_size = largest_hole;
-			}
+			mm->free_area_cache = vma->vm_start;
+			mm->cached_hole_size = largest_hole;
 		}
 
 		/* remember the largest hole we saw so far */
_

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