[PATCH v4 11/66] mm/mmap: Use maple tree for unmapped_area{_topdown}
Vlastimil Babka
vbabka at suse.cz
Wed Dec 15 08:43:26 PST 2021
On 12/1/21 15:29, Liam Howlett wrote:
> From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>
>
> The maple tree code was added to find the unmapped area in a previous
> commit and was checked against what the rbtree returned, but the actual
> result was never used. Start using the maple tree implementation and
> remove the rbtree code.
Nice cleanup. But...
> Add kernel documentation comment for these functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>
>
> /* Adjust search length to account for worst case alignment overhead */
> length = info->length + info->align_mask;
> if (length < info->length)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - mas_empty_area_rev(&mas, info->low_limit, info->high_limit - 1,
> - length);
> - rcu_read_unlock();
Why is RCU locking being removed as part of this? Ditton in
unmapped_area_topdown()
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