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Message-Id: <fd346c11090cf93d867e01b8d73a6567c5ac6361.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:58:47 -0700
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: [PATCH v3 7/8] proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads

From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>

The current code does a full search of the segment list every time for
every page. This is wasteful, since it's almost certain that the next
page will be in the same segment. Instead, check if the previous segment
covers the current page before doing the list search.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>
---
 fs/proc/kcore.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index e2ca58d49938..25fefdd05ee5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -428,10 +428,18 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
 	if ((tsz = (PAGE_SIZE - (start & ~PAGE_MASK))) > buflen)
 		tsz = buflen;
 
+	m = NULL;
 	while (buflen) {
-		list_for_each_entry(m, &kclist_head, list) {
-			if (start >= m->addr && start < (m->addr+m->size))
-				break;
+		/*
+		 * If this is the first iteration or the address is not within
+		 * the previous entry, search for a matching entry.
+		 */
+		if (!m || start < m->addr || start >= m->addr + m->size) {
+			list_for_each_entry(m, &kclist_head, list) {
+				if (start >= m->addr &&
+				    start < m->addr + m->size)
+					break;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (&m->list == &kclist_head) {
-- 
2.18.0

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