[RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()

[Chris Metcalf]

On 12/6/2012 11:09 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific
> virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose
> and more efficient, because it uses a rbtree.
> So change it.

If you get an Acked-by for the x86 change, feel free to apply it to the tile file as well.  You'll note that for tile it's under an #if 0, which in retrospect I shouldn't have pushed anyway.  So I don't feel strongly :-)

FWIW, the change certainly seems at least plausible to me.

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