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vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 02:23:36 +0000 (18:23 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 02:23:36 +0000 (18:23 -0800)
commit29219211ff964b6f04eef38c4ee458597311f5bf
treebabf61a0287b0f09f80580847274877831ed6869
parent233e5f99274be1ddb154abebc81a19d95592de69
vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily

Several users of "find_vma_prev()" were not in fact interested in the
previous vma if there was no primary vma to be found either.  And in
those cases, we're much better off just using the regular "find_vma()",
and then "prev" can be looked up by just checking vma->vm_prev.

The find_vma_prev() semantics are fairly subtle (see Mikulas' recent
commit df8066d83010: "mm: fix find_vma_prev"), and the whole "return
prev by reference" means that it generates worse code too.

Thus this "let's avoid using this inconvenient and clearly too subtle
interface when we don't really have to" patch.

Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
mm/mempolicy.c
mm/mlock.c
mm/mprotect.c