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Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable()

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable()
Date 2017-07-11 09:20 +0200
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On Tue 11-07-17 08:56:04, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 07/11/2017 08:50 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 11-07-17 08:26:40, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >> On 07/11/2017 08:03 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Are you telling me that two if conditions cause more than a second
> >>> difference? That sounds suspicious.
> >>
> >> It's removing also a call to get_unmapped_area(), AFAICS. That means a
> >> vma search?
> > 
> > Ohh, right. I have somehow missed that. Is this removal intentional?
> 
> I think it is: "Checking for availability of virtual address range at
> the end of the VMA for the incremental size is also reduntant at this
> point."

I though this referred to this check
	if (vma->vm_next && vma->vm_next->vm_start < end)

becuase get_unampped_area with MAP_FIXED doesn't really check
anything. It will simply return the given address. Btw. this also rules
out find_vma.
 
> > The
> > changelog is silent about it.
> 
> It doesn't explain why it's redundant, indeed. Unfortunately, the commit
> f106af4e90ea ("fix checks for expand-in-place mremap") which added this,
> also doesn't explain why it's needed.

Because it doesn't do anything AFAICS.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-10 13:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-10 15:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 06:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-11 08:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-07-11 08:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-11 09:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-07-11 09:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-11 09:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-11 09:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 13:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 13:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 13:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-07-11 13:30 +0200
            Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 13:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 11:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC] mm/mremap: Remove redundant checks inside vma_expandable() Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-07-11 06:40 +0200

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