linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:50:39 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+linux-riscv@...nel.org
To: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@...osinc.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, alexghiti@...osinc.com,
 paul.walmsley@...ive.com, palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
 shuah@...nel.org, corbet@....net, cyy@...self.name, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available

Hello:

This series was applied to riscv/linux.git (for-next)
by Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:04:29 -0800 you wrote:
> On riscv, mmap currently returns an address from the largest address
> space that can fit entirely inside of the hint address. This makes it
> such that the hint address is almost never returned. This patch raises
> the mappable area up to and including the hint address. This allows mmap
> to often return the hint address, which allows a performance improvement
> over searching for a valid address as well as making the behavior more
> similar to other architectures.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2,1/3] riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available
    (no matching commit)
  - [v2,2/3] selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests
    (no matching commit)
  - [v2,3/3] docs: riscv: Define behavior of mmap
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/371a3c2055db

You are awesome, thank you!
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