mm: simplify find_vma_prev()

commit 297c5ee ("mm: make the vma list be doubly linked") added the vm_prev member to vm_area_struct. We can simplify find_vma_prev() by using it. Also, this change helps to improve page fault performance because it has stronger locality of reference. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
opendata26 · Jan 11, 2012 · 6bd4837 · 6bd4837
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commit 6bd4837
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 28 deletions.
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1603,39 +1603,19 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_vma);
 
-/* Same as find_vma, but also return a pointer to the previous VMA in *pprev. */
+/*
+ * Same as find_vma, but also return a pointer to the previous VMA in *pprev.
+ * Note: pprev is set to NULL when return value is NULL.
+ */
 struct vm_area_struct *
 find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 			struct vm_area_struct **pprev)
 {
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL, *prev = NULL;
-	struct rb_node *rb_node;
-	if (!mm)
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Guard against addr being lower than the first VMA */
-	vma = mm->mmap;
-
-	/* Go through the RB tree quickly. */
-	rb_node = mm->mm_rb.rb_node;
-
-	while (rb_node) {
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma_tmp;
-		vma_tmp = rb_entry(rb_node, struct vm_area_struct, vm_rb);
-
-		if (addr < vma_tmp->vm_end) {
-			rb_node = rb_node->rb_left;
-		} else {
-			prev = vma_tmp;
-			if (!prev->vm_next || (addr < prev->vm_next->vm_end))
-				break;
-			rb_node = rb_node->rb_right;
-		}
-	}
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
-out:
-	*pprev = prev;
-	return prev ? prev->vm_next : vma;
+	vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
+	*pprev = vma ? vma->vm_prev : NULL;
+	return vma;
 }
 
 /*