linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/8] mm: Start fallback top-down mmap at mm->mmap

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Message-Id: <20190619050844.5294-6-alex@ghiti.fr>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 01:08:41 -0400
From:   Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] mm: Start fallback top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base

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@...ti.fr>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index dedae10cb6e2..e563145c1ff4 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
 	if (offset_in_page(addr)) {
 		VM_BUG_ON(addr != -ENOMEM);
 		info.flags = 0;
-		info.low_limit = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
+		info.low_limit = arch_get_mmap_base(addr, mm->mmap_base);
 		info.high_limit = mmap_end;
 		addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info);
 	}
-- 
2.20.1