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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2016-10-07 17:01:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-07 18:46:29 -0700
commitfb8c41e9ad1f356b06b46a63ada10b7dce2a5d94 (patch)
treedae7e1ad1d4e34ef6fb70c33f63f97ebe10722d1 /mm/mmap.c
parent6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (diff)
downloadlinux-fb8c41e9ad1f356b06b46a63ada10b7dce2a5d94.tar.gz
mm: vma_adjust: remove superfluous confusing update in remove_next == 1 case
mm->highest_vm_end doesn't need any update.

After finally removing the oddness from vma_merge case 8 that was
causing:

1) constant risk of trouble whenever anybody would check vma fields
   from rmap_walks, like it happened when page migration was
   introduced and it read the vma->vm_page_prot from a rmap_walk

2) the callers of vma_merge to re-initialize any value different from
   the current vma, instead of vma_merge() more reliably returning a
   vma that already matches all fields passed as parameter

.. it is also worth to take the opportunity of cleaning up superfluous
code in vma_adjust(), that if not removed adds up to the hard
readability of the function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474492522-2261-5-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c24
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index b3b74cc705ae..183694b80bcc 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -817,8 +817,28 @@ again:
 		}
 		else if (next)
 			vma_gap_update(next);
-		else
-			mm->highest_vm_end = end;
+		else {
+			/*
+			 * If remove_next == 2 we obviously can't
+			 * reach this path.
+			 *
+			 * If remove_next == 3 we can't reach this
+			 * path because pre-swap() next is always not
+			 * NULL. pre-swap() "next" is not being
+			 * removed and its next->vm_end is not altered
+			 * (and furthermore "end" already matches
+			 * next->vm_end in remove_next == 3).
+			 *
+			 * We reach this only in the remove_next == 1
+			 * case if the "next" vma that was removed was
+			 * the highest vma of the mm. However in such
+			 * case next->vm_end == "end" and the extended
+			 * "vma" has vma->vm_end == next->vm_end so
+			 * mm->highest_vm_end doesn't need any update
+			 * in remove_next == 1 case.
+			 */
+			VM_WARN_ON(mm->highest_vm_end != end);
+		}
 	}
 	if (insert && file)
 		uprobe_mmap(insert);