[PATCH -mm 1/2] mm: fix quadratic behaviour in get_unmapped_area_topdown

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

When we look for a VMA smaller than the cached_hole_size, we set the
starting search address to mm->mmap_base, to try and find our hole.

However, even in the case where we fall through and found nothing at
the mm->free_area_cache, we still reset the search address to mm->mmap_base.
This bug results in quadratic behaviour, with observed mmap times of 0.4
seconds for processes that have very fragmented memory.

If there is no hole small enough for us to fit the VMA, and we have
no good spot for us right at mm->free_area_cache, we are much better
off continuing the search down from mm->free_area_cache, instead of
all the way from the top.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
---
Tested on x86-64, the other architectures have the exact same bug cut'n'pasted.

 arch/sh/mm/mmap.c            |    1 -
 arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c  |    2 --
 arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c |    2 --
 mm/mmap.c                    |    2 --
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/mmap.c b/arch/sh/mm/mmap.c
index afeb710..fba1b32 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/mmap.c
@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	if (unlikely(mm->mmap_base < len))
 		goto bottomup;
 
-	addr = mm->mmap_base-len;
 	if (do_colour_align)
 		addr = COLOUR_ALIGN_DOWN(addr, pgoff);
 
diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 07e1453..603a01d 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	if (unlikely(mm->mmap_base < len))
 		goto bottomup;
 
-	addr = (mm->mmap_base-len) & HPAGE_MASK;
-
 	do {
 		/*
 		 * Lookup failure means no vma is above this address,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
index 0514890..1a3fa81 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
@@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	if (mm->mmap_base < len)
 		goto bottomup;
 
-	addr = mm->mmap_base-len;
-
 	do {
 		addr = align_addr(addr, filp, ALIGN_TOPDOWN);
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 3f758c7..5eafe26 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1479,8 +1479,6 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
 	if (mm->mmap_base < len)
 		goto bottomup;
 
-	addr = mm->mmap_base-len;
-
 	do {
 		/*
 		 * Lookup failure means no vma is above this address,

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