Re: [PATCH 2/4] hugetlg: Break earlier in add_reservation_in_range() when we can

[Miaohe Lin]

Hi:
On 2021/2/4 5:08, Peter Xu wrote:
> All the regions maintained in hugetlb reserved map is inclusive on "from" but
> exclusive on "to".  We can break earlier even if rg->from==t because it already
> means no possible intersection.
> 
> This does not need a Fixes in all cases because when it happens (rg->from==t)
> we'll not break out of the loop while we should, however the next thing we'd do
> is still add the last file_region we'd need and quit the loop in the next
> round.  So this change is not a bugfix (since the old code should still run
> okay iiuc), but we'd better still touch it up to make it logically sane.
> 

I think the difference is when we handle the rg->from == t case. Previous one is in the loop, now below the
loop. But the result should be same.
Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index d2859c2aecc9..9e6ea96bf33b 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static long add_reservation_in_range(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t,
>  		/* When we find a region that starts beyond our range, we've
>  		 * finished.
>  		 */
> -		if (rg->from > t)
> +		if (rg->from >= t)
>  			break;
>  
>  		/* Add an entry for last_accounted_offset -> rg->from, and
>