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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Chen Gang <xili_gchen_5257@hotmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com"
	<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	"riel@redhat.com" <riel@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	"sasha.levin@oracle.com" <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	"pfeiner@google.com" <pfeiner@google.com>,
	"aarcange@redhat.com" <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"vishnu.ps@samsung.com" <vishnu.ps@samsung.com>,
	Linux Memory <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap.c: Remove useless statement "vma = NULL" in find_vma()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:19:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150910181935.GB21456@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL130-W43C0C45AA4E2A7AA6361D0B9520@phx.gbl>

On 09/10, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> On 9/10/15 00:26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > The implementation looks correct. Why do you think it can be not 1st vma?
> >
>
> It is in while (rb_node) {...}.
>
> - When we set "vma = tmp", it is alreay match "addr < vm_end".

Yes,

> - If "addr>= vm_start", we return this vma (else continue searching).

This is optimization, we can stop the search because in this case
vma == tmp is obviously the 1st vma with "addr < vm_end".

I simply can't understand your concerns. Perhaps you can make a
patch, then it will be more clear what me-or-you have missed.

Oleg.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-05 14:03 [PATCH] mm/mmap.c: Remove useless statement "vma = NULL" in find_vma() Chen Gang
2015-09-07 12:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
     [not found]   ` <55EEED66.6090509@hotmail.com>
2015-09-08 14:14     ` Chen Gang
2015-09-09 16:26       ` Oleg Nesterov
     [not found]         ` <55F0B6C2.2000706@hotmail.com>
2015-09-09 22:44           ` Chen Gang
2015-09-10 18:19             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-09-10 22:20               ` Chen Gang
2015-09-08 23:14 ` David Rientjes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-03  3:52 gang.chen.5i5j
2015-09-03  4:02 ` Chen Gang

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